redcap
Example Sentences
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He went to Colgate University, hurled the javelin on the track team, worked summers as a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Therefore Minister Olaya, unattended, went to the Union Station, handed his bag to a redcap, boarded an ordinary Pullman to New York where he went into seclusion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Now, be careful," warned our redcap, Chester, as he carried our suitcases to our second-story sleeper on the silver superliner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kim said to her mother, “Mommy, can’t you tell that Bud-not-Buddy doesn’t know what a redcap is, you gotta explain better.”
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
