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parlor car

NOUN
eating car in train
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Or is it the soft, steady voice of the stranger in the train’s parlor car, telling a story to the boy’s father?

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2015

The secret, if it proves as workable as its inventors hope, is the mobile lounge�a fat-tired monster that rolls regally over the landing strip like a parlor car on stilts.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the parlor car someone roused the Senator from the exhausted sleep that had seized him as soon as he had boarded the train in Chicago one hour and 15 minutes earlier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today Branford ranks as the second largest trolley trove in the country, is stocked with 75 cars, ranging from a John Stephenson horsecar, vintage 1893, to a wicker-chaired private parlor car in mint condition.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had ridden to Philadelphia in reserved parlor car seats.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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