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parlor car
noun
- a railroad passenger car that has individual reserved seats and is more comfortable than a day coach.
parlor car
noun
- (in the US and Canada) a comfortable railway coach with individual reserved seats
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Word History and Origins
Origin of parlor car1
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Example Sentences
He and his companion paid the amount required and we were permitted to ride in the parlor car to Topeka, Kansas.
He had done exactly as Dee said he would do: got a chair in the parlor car for "Orphan Annie."
Save for a single parlor car or two, it has always been a day-coach train, no excess fare being charged.
It is an all-parlor-car train, the most luxurious suburban on the line, yet not one Commuter in a thousand knows a thing about it.
In the parlor car near one end sat a group of thirteen girls and one young woman.
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