redcap

Example Sentences

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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

Mrs. Rudkin had her husband tote them on the train daily into Grand Central, where he paid a redcap to deliver them to Charles & Co.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Pacific University graduate who once worked as a redcap despite a journalism degree, he was taken on as a copy boy in 1952.

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