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Pullman car

Pullman car \Pull"man car`\ [Named after Mr. Pullman, who introduced them.] A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman.

Usage examples of "pullman car".

He saw none, but remembered with searing clarity the Pullman car where he and Kathleen had celebrated their marriage.

Below the windows of the carriage, in broad letters of brown and gold, was written 'Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac', and below that 'Bellesylvania', the name of the Pullman car.

The seventh and last Pullman car, the one with the grisly occupants on the observation platform, bore the emblem of the American eagle on the door.

She hadn't been a virgin there in the Pullman car on the way to New Orleans, either.

Beyond was a turn-of-the-century railroad Pullman car, an odd-looking sailboat mounted on a rubber raft and a bathtub with an outboard motor attached on one end.

He pointed at the big Pullman car with the letters MANHATTAN LIMITED painted in gold on the side.

The title of Pullman Car Hiawatha, refers to a railroad sleeping car named after the legendary Onondaga Indian chief, Hiawatha.