parlor car
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of parlor car
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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Or is it the soft, steady voice of the stranger in the train’s parlor car, telling a story to the boy’s father?
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2015
In the parlor car someone roused the Senator from the exhausted sleep that had seized him as soon as he had boarded the train in Chicago one hour and 15 minutes earlier.
From Time Magazine Archive
The classroom is a converted parlor car, and the students are commuters in one of two new programs to let businessmen take courses as they ride to and from New York City.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ordinary traveler pays $4.38 to make the round trip in a parlor car between Washington and Baltimore.
From Time Magazine Archive
They came up, hand in hand, from the other side of the Wabash tracks and scrambled aboard the open platform at the back of the parlor car.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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