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parlor car

noun as in eating car in train

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Cora slapped her hands on the cushions of the parlor car and said the farm suited her just fine.

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They came up, hand in hand, from the other side of the Wabash tracks and scrambled aboard the open platform at the back of the parlor car.

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Or is it the soft, steady voice of the stranger in the train’s parlor car, telling a story to the boy’s father?

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The parlor car, packed with businessmen behind their newspapers, commuting homeward after their workdays, was electric with Malcolm X’s presence.

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I think it is much cheaper to have luncheon served on a table in the parlor car.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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