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Pullman|ˈpʊlmən|
[From the name of the designer, George M. Pullman of Chicago.]
a. In full, Pullman car (Pullman saloon): a railway carriage constructed and arranged as a saloon, and (usually) with special arrangements for use as a sleeping-car.
1872W. F. Butler Great Lone Land iv. 57 One takes a Pullman..as one takes a Hansom, Pullman and sleeping-car have become synonymous terms. 1874M. Kingsley in C. Kingsley's Life & Lett. (1879) II. 319 On the 15th we left Omaha in the magnificent Pullman car which was our home for the next fortnight. 1875Midld. Railw. Co.'s Time Tables April, On and after April 1 trains of the celebrated American Pullman Drawing Room and Sleeping Cars will be run between London (St. Pancras) and Liverpool (Central) station. 1876World V. No. 112. 14 One may ask whether the Great Western might not be expected to have a Pullman attached. 1877Daily News 21 Nov. 5/6, I was as glad to hire it as though I had obtained a Pullman saloon. 1878F. Williams Midl. Railway 673. 1894 Daily News 5 Oct. 4/5 The locomotives, tenders, and all the front part of the train up to the Pullman were wrecked. 1951N. Mitford Blessing ii. xii. 265 The Bunbury burglar was walking up the Pullman on his way..to the Trianon bar. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 28 Apr. 49 By the end of this decade, British Rail acknowledges,..the Manchester, the South Wales and the Bristol Pullmans..will have vanished. 1977Modern Railways Dec. 476/2 The other Metro-Cammell Pullmans still mouldering away in sidings have apparently been abandoned so long that rehabilitation is now unacceptably expensive.
b. attrib.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. 419 Pullman Palace Car Company Stock $72,300. 1873Forest & Stream 28 Aug. 34/1 It was a close pack..the whole scene reminding one forcibly of a ‘Pullman’ sleeping car. 1885S. Baxter in Harper's Mag. Apr. 698/2 The traveller..goes to sleep in his Pullman berth. 1893Gunter Miss Dividends 54 The Pullman porter shouts to her to look out. 1896in Westm. Gaz. 28 Nov. 2/3 The first Pullman trains were run in this country in 1875... I saw in the summer of that year the very first Pullman train running South through the Trent Valley. 1954W. Tucker Wild Talent (1955) v. 58 Ray Palmer slept soundly in the topmost Pullman bed. 1955D. Davie Brides of Reason 28 While Pullman sleepers lulled your sleeping head. 1977Time 18 Apr. 22/2 The cabin can accommodate eight passengers on comfortable Pullman seats.
c. transf. (Usu. with small initial.) A prefabricated unit of kitchen or bathroom fixtures, compact as in a railway carriage. Usu. attrib. Chiefly U.S.
[1932New Yorker 23 July 5/2 There are many people who..would be glad to buy a Pullman section to install in their home.] 1967‘L. Egan’ Nameless Ones iii. 37 A chipped but spotless pullman washstand. 1968‘R. Macdonald’ Instant Enemy xxv. 155 It was what is called a studio apartment, consisting of one large room with a pullman kitchen. 1973Sunday Bull. (Philadelphia) 7 Oct. (Parade Suppl.) f6 New double sink pullmans with bright colors are available, or, if you want to do-it-yourself, try separate wash basins. 1977Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. i. 33/2 The apartments for the 16 families in the community consisted of two rooms and a Pullman kitchen.
Hence ˈPullmanize, Pullman-car vbs., intr. to travel in a Pullman car. nonce-wds.
1882Sala Amer. Revis (1885) 271 After three or four days' Pullmanising. 1892Pall Mall G. 9 May 6/1 Caravanning..finds its parallel in America in Pullman-carring. |