Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A railroad-car fitted with reclining chairs, often used on night, trains instead of a regular sleeping-car.
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Examples
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At the close of my evidence, on my return to Montreal, his lordship and I found ourselves by accident in the same chair-car.
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She got a chair-car after that, but, having got into the way of it, drowsed again.
The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931
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I wonder if there's any blue-law that forbids opening chair-car windows.
The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931
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The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad now followed suit by introducing a new Pullman chair-car.
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She has a chair-car reservation on the Pennsylvania train leaving there at ten o'clock in the morning.
From Place to Place 1910
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Two or three bundled passengers with snow packed in the wrinkles of their clothing went down the aisle of the chair-car, looking for seats.
The Lookout Man B. M. Bower 1905
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"No, I'll go forward into the chair-car," replied Glover.
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The beautiful Silver Special, scheduled to leave each night at eleven-thirty, had been stalled there since the strike began, yet rumor had it that the management meant to launch it southwestward, mails, express, buffet, chair-car, and sleepers complete, if they had to cram its roofs and platforms with deputies armed with Winchesters.
A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Charles King 1888
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My chair-car was profitably well filled with people of the kind one usually sees on chair-cars.
Options O. Henry 1886
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"Several people, whom I knew, must have been in the chair-car with me, because I seemed to be taking part in a conversation.
Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Henry Mills Alden 1877
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