chair car
Americannoun
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a day coach having two adjustable seats on each side of a central aisle.
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(not in technical use) parlor car.
Etymology
Origin of chair car
An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
Example Sentences
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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
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
This road, in common with some of the eastern roads employs chair car porters in addition to the Pullman porters.
From The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" by Love, Nat
The down train thundered in, just then, and with a squealing of brakes stopped so that its chair car blotted her dismal view of the close hillside.
From The Lookout Man by Bower, B. M.
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