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chair car

NOUN
railroad car containing comfortable reserved seats
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Three of our citizens bought an old railroad baggage and chair car.

From Time Magazine Archive

When a woman complained about the cuspidors in a chair car, Bill Jeffers had them taken off the train.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then after a few characteristic haughty remarks the Southerner went forward to the chair car and sat up all night.

From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Micheaux, Oscar

As the coaches jolted to a halt, there crawled or rather rolled from under the chair car a forlorn figure, weakened, tattered, a stowaway delivered from a perilous stolen ride on the trucks.

From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Chapman, Allen

There were about eight persons in the chair car as Judy entered and Judy-like, she immediately became intensely interested in them.

From Molly Brown's College Friends by Speed, Nell