redcap

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Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching.

From Time Magazine Archive

Others: a hobo is a redcap, sinkers are dumplings, a K.O. is a commanding officer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Therefore Minister Olaya, unattended, went to the Union Station, handed his bag to a redcap, boarded an ordinary Pullman to New York where he went into seclusion.

From Time Magazine Archive

And her father, a redcap at Los Angeles' Union Station, owns a roomful of hot records�Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kim said to her mother, “Mommy, can’t you tell that Bud-not-Buddy doesn’t know what a redcap is, you gotta explain better.”

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis