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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

There was no chair car on the three forty-five and Chapman had to travel in the common coach, Willitts and the luggage crowded into the seat behind him.

From Miss Maitland Private Secretary by Bonner, Geraldine

It was printed in green and gold, as he had said, and was not torn as were the other scraps of paper that had come from the chair car.

From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South by Hope, Laura Lee

"It just can be helped!" cried Bess, suddenly, and she whirled and fairly ran forward into the chair car.

From Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways by Carr, Annie Roe




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