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chair car

NOUN
railroad car containing comfortable reserved seats
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When a woman complained about the cuspidors in a chair car, Bill Jeffers had them taken off the train.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three of our citizens bought an old railroad baggage and chair car.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It was a chair car, and the porter had evidently been doing some sweeping, for he held in his hands a dustpan.

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

When he returned to his place in the chair car he knew he must try to find out what isolated fishing country was closest.

From The Lookout Man by Bower, B. M.




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