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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

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

She was very nice, however, to the girl from Silver Ranch, sat beside her in the chair car, and soon had Jane Ann laughing.

From Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box by Emerson, Alice B.

It was the chair car, and the one in which he naturally would expect her to ride.

From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar




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