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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

It also collects all revenues from sleeping and parlor car ticket sales.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

While motorists on the single major highway are bumper to bumper, passengers can recline in the velvety Presidential parlor car, built in 1925.

From Time Magazine Archive

Walking to board the parlor car, we had passed a dining car toward which he jerked his head, “I used to work on that thing.”

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




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