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Parlor car   /pˈɑrlər kɑr/   Listen
Parlor car

noun
1.
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



... 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 (1863-1930)

... car in the rear of the one he had occupied, the regular parlor car, the Flopper, a piteous spectacle, made his way—chairs turned, the occupants craned their necks after the deformed and broken creature, while smothered exclamations and little cries of sympathy ...
— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard

... finger in packing this trunk," Daddy answered for him. "All right, Son, we're fixed. Now we'll see if we can get some parlor car seats." ...
— Sunny Boy in the Big City • Ramy Allison White

... 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

... was on time, and when it rolled into the station they climbed on board, and the boys found the right seats in the parlor car and settled the girls. Ben was there, and had ...
— Dave Porter at Star Ranch - Or, The Cowboy's Secret • Edward Stratemeyer



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