mail car
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mail car
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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But the men guarding the Wells Fargo car and the mail car stood their ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
It features vintage airmail planes, a rail mail car, a 1931 Ford Model A postal truck.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2021
Postal Service mail car and the tight living quarters of a freight-train crew.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 27, 2014
Yugoslavs suspected their own government of wanting something out of the Orient Express mail car and getting it.
From Time Magazine Archive
I fought successfully against myself, and got up at an uncomfortably early hour and went to Newport by mail car.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
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