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单词 pullman car
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Pullman car
(b) spec. in Pullman car.Pullman-carring n. Obsolete = Pullmanizing n. at Derivatives.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > sleeping car
Pullman car1867
bed-carriage1869
car1873
sleeper1875
wagon-lit1884
bunk-car1894
couchette1920
slumbercoach1958
1867 Commerc. & Financial Chron. 14 Sept. 347/2 These Pullman cars..are quite as strong and serviceable as they are elegant and luxurious.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 May 6/1 Caravanning..finds its parallel in America in Pullman-carring.
1940 Amer. Speech 15 213/2 A professional person paid for her services, as the hostess at a hotel, on an airplane, or on pullman cars.
1993 C. T. Rowan Dream Makers, Dream Breakers i. 8 Blacks now had parlor-car seats, drank in the dining car, shared the Pullman cars with whites.
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