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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Three of our citizens bought an old railroad baggage and chair car.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a woman complained about the cuspidors in a chair car, Bill Jeffers had them taken off the train.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peter entered the chair car when the train came in.
From The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
Then for hours, in the Pullman chair car, he fidgeted, counting the telegraph posts, checking off the stations as they flipped past the windows, through a day of eagerness, of excited, racking anticipation.
From The White Desert by Fischer, Anton Otto
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
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