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Drawing-room car   /drˈɔɪŋ-rum kɑr/   Listen
Drawing-room car

noun
1.
A passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs.  Synonyms: chair car, palace car, parlor car, parlour car.





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"Drawing-room car" Quotes from Famous Books



... though, by the time we got settled in the drawing-room car, and I was three seats from Mrs. Erveng,—I managed that,—with Mr. Erveng and Hilliard between us. It was a marvel to me the way those two waited on Mrs. Erveng; in watching them do it I forgot about myself. Her chair must be at just such an angle, her footstool in just such a position, and ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus


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