Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A drawing-room car on a railroad.

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Examples

  • But at that very moment a small saloon-car drew up at the front of the steps.

    Maigret at the Crossroads Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

  • He hated the European railway-carriages, in which one sat for hours in a vice, knee to knee and nose to nose with a foreigner to whom one presently found one’s self objecting with all the added vehemence of one’s wish to have the window open; and if they were worse at night even than by day, at least at night one could sleep and dream of an American saloon-car.

    Chapter XLIV 1917

  • As he had three ladies with him Mr. Pym decided to take a private saloon-car, but no saloon in the world could prevent them being nearly smothered with the dust through Bechuanaland and Matabeleland in

    The Rhodesian Gertrude Page 1897

  • Nice together in a saloon-car with a guard of twelve carabineers and twelve plain-clothes men, and the Chief and I drank champagne all the way.

    Ranson's Folly Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • He hated the European railway-carriages, in which one sat for hours in a vise, knee to knee and nose to nose with a foreigner to whom one presently found one's self objecting with all the added vehemence of one's wish to have the window open; and if they were worse at night even than by day, at least at night one could sleep and dream of an American saloon-car.

    The Portrait of a Lady 1881

  • European railway-carriages, in which one sat for hours in a vise, knee to knee and nose to nose with a foreigner to whom one presently found one's self objecting with all the added vehemence of one's wish to have the window open; and if they were worse at night even than by day, at least at night one could sleep and dream of an American saloon-car.

    The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

  • Another poll put him tied, yes, tied, with McCain among Nascar fans - white "Joe Six Packs" who follow saloon-car racing, and are normally bedrock Republicans.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • Press the central release and the boot lid pops up saloon-car style.

    This Is Guernsey 2008

  • He hated the European railway-carriages, in which one sat for hours in a vise, knee to knee and nose to nose with a foreigner to whom one presently found one’s self objecting with all the added vehemence of one’s wish to have the window open; and if they were worse at night even than by day, at least at night one could sleep and dream of an American saloon-car.

    The Portrait of a Lady 2003

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