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/pˈɑrlər kɑr/ Listen

Parlor car

noun

A passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs. Synonyms: chair car, drawing-room car, palace car, parlour car.

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"Parlor car" Quotes from Famous Books

... from Chicago had just reached the Grand Central Depot. From the parlor car descended two boys who are well known to us, ...

— Helping Himself • Horatio Alger

... should, as it then lacked only seventeen minutes of four. But as Mr. Blaine reached the front door, he said to the editor: "My carriage is waiting at the curb to take you to the station, and the coachman has your seat in the parlor car." ...

— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok

Words linked to "Parlor car" : coach, parlour car, palace car, drawing-room car, carriage, passenger car