| 单词 | chair-car |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschair-car chair-car n. originally U.S. a railway carriage furnished with chairs (two on each side of the aisle) instead of the usual seats; also, a parlour car (see parlour n. and adj. Compounds 1). ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage caravan1821 private car1826 Jim Crow car1835 ladies' car1841 saloon car or carriage1842 palace car1844 ladies' carriage1847 parliamentary carriage1849 parlour car1859 composite carriage1868 Pullman1869 observation car1872 first1873 compo1878 bogie carriage1880 chair-car1880 club car1893 corridor carriage1893 tourist-car1895 birdcage1900 dog box1905 corridor coach1911 vista-dome1945 Stolypin1970 1880 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited 166/2 The Pullman Parlor car—commonly termed a ‘chair’ car. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 11 July 6/1 A fire..partially destroyed a dining car and a chair-car. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options (1916) 210 My chair-car was profitably well filled with people of the kind one usually sees on chair-cars. 1969 National Herald (New Delhi) 29 July 4/4 The average number of air-conditioned chair car seats occupied per trip was 290. < as lemmas |
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