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Pullman porter   /pˈʊlmən pˈɔrtər/   Listen
Pullman porter

noun
1.
A railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars).  Synonym: porter.





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"Pullman porter" Quotes from Famous Books



... not me! I aims to 'vest mah money in de fried smelt business. Right now I's a Pullman porter. In Poteland mebbe I sees kin I buy myself free. Anyway, I starts me a smelt fish business. River's full ob ol' smelt fish. I ketches me a wagon load. I builds me a fire in mah fish wagon, an' when de fish is fried I sells ...
— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley
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... century mark in life's journey, and yielding to persistent requests of many old and valued friends of the past and present, I have decided to write the record of slave, cowboy and pullman porter will prove of interest to the reading public generally and particularly to those who prefer facts to fiction, (and in this case again facts will prove stranger than fiction). I assure my readers that every event ...
— The Life and Adventures of Nat Love - Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" • Nat Love
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... folly. It has cost the American tax-payers a quarter of a million dollars to have their mis-representatives prancing around the Kremlin in short-stop pants and silk stockings, bowing and scraping like a Pullman porter who has just received a dollar tip ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
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Words linked to "Pullman porter" :   employee, porter


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