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
In a parlor car on the same train, rode New York's bald, kindly Governor Herbert Lehman, glad to be unnoticed.
From Time Magazine Archive
It also collects all revenues from sleeping and parlor car ticket sales.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had ridden to Philadelphia in reserved parlor car seats.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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