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Pullman car

NOUN
sleeping car
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The ceremony was conducted by a railway chaplain, and a wedding breakfast was served in a Pullman car.

From BBC Mar. 8, 2024

Across the way, a Victrola plays music in an old Pullman car, which sits behind a silver Chicago L-train car.

From Washington Post Mar. 12, 2020

So you’d see an ad for the Pullman Company, and it’s an ad for the Pullman car, what are you going to have?

From Slate Mar. 14, 2018

In “All Aboard!,” a mouse heads west in a Pullman car and after many adventures returns to New York via airplane and parachute.

From The New Yorker Feb. 25, 2017

A week after the Bay Meadows Handicap, Seabiscuit and Pumpkin walked up the ramp of the Pullman car and settled into the straw to sleep.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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