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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



... hardly been an hour under way before I saw the two objects of my watchfulness seated side by side in the drawing-room car, ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward

... 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

... beforehand to get her mother's foot-warmer filled with hot water at the station, and he had just returned with it. She was busily arranging it under Mrs. Argenter's feet again, and wrapping the rug about her, kneeling beside her chair to do so, when some one entered the drawing-room car in which the party was, and came ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney



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