Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drawing-room car on a railroad.
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Examples
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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
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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 ones self objecting with all the added vehemence of ones 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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Press the central release and the boot lid pops up saloon-car style.
This Is Guernsey 2008
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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.
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