Pullmann.

Brit.

/ˈpʊlmən/, U.S.

/ˈpʊlm(ə)n/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pullman.

Etymology: < the name of George M. Pullman (1831–97), U.S. industrialist, who designed a new, more comfortable sleeping car in 1865 and founded Pullman's Palace Car Company in 1867.

I. Compounds.

(a) attributive. Designating a railway carriage affording special comfort, esp. one with sleeping facilities.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [adjective] > types of railway carriage or wagon > types of carriage or compartment > including or connected with sleeping cars

Pullman1867

sleeper1875

1867 N.Y. Times 11 June 5/2 The train itself consisted of a provision-car, one of the Pullman sleeping-cars, and the car built..for the special use of President Lincoln.

1877 Daily News 21 Nov. 5/6 I was as glad to hire it as though I had obtained a Pullman saloon.

1883 Manitoba Daily Free Press 13 Dec. 1/7 The emigrant coaches in almost every other respect are similar to the Pullman carriages.

1915 ‘B. M. Bower’ Flying U's Last Stand ii. 7 [He] attempted to negotiate the narrow passage into a Pullman sleeper.

1981 Times 11 Nov. 3/3 (caption) Four luxury Pullman carriages and a baggage brake have been restored to their decadent Thirties grandeur by Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Ltd.

2001 L. Menand Metaphysical Club (2002) xii. 294 The ARU [= American Railway Union] ordered all switchmen to refuse to switch Pullman sleeping cars onto trains.

(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.

b. In more general attributive use with reference to such carriages, as Pullman porter, Pullman train, etc.

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1874 Times 4 Nov. 6/5 The Pullman train, which now runs between Bradford and London, keeps time to a minute, as the number of carriages is limited.

1885 S. Baxter in Harper's Mag. Apr. 698/2 The traveller..goes to sleep in his Pullman berth.

1893 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends 54 The Pullman porter shouts to her to look out.

1954 W. Tucker Wild Talent (1955) v. 58 Ray Palmer slept soundly in the topmost Pullman bed.

1977 Time 18 Apr. 22/2 The cabin can accommodate eight passengers on comfortable Pullman seats.

1998 F. Flagg Welcome to World, Baby Girl! 424 It was still the 1940s in America, and many whites had never met a Negro other than a maid or a Pullman porter.

2. attributive. Originally and chiefly North American. Designating a large suitcase, of a type originally designed to fit under the seat in a Pullman car.

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1906 Chillicothe (Missouri) Morning Constit. 22 Dec. 4/7 (advt.) Pullman case rubber lined $1.00 to $2.25.

1936 Times 27 July 7/5 A Pullman case has three shoulders for frocks, a shoe case, and a hollow space with capacity for many other garments.

1993 D. Parry Hummingbird Soup xxxvi. 221 Lonny explained that a seventy-gallon sewage pump-out tank in a mobile home would hold two pullman suitcases.

3. attributive. Chiefly U.S. Designating a compact prefabricated unit of kitchen or bathroom fixtures, typically designed to fit compactly along a single wall.

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1915 Los Angeles Times 7 Feb. iv. 6 (advt.) To let—choicest flat... Pullman buffet kitchen.

1967 ‘L. Egan’ Nameless Ones iii. 37 A chipped but spotless pullman washstand.

1968 ‘J. R. Macdonald’ Instant Enemy xxv. 155 It was what is called a studio apartment, consisting of one large room with a pullman kitchen.

1994 C. Grant X-Files: Goblins ix. 99 A small room, a Pullman kitchenette at the end of a short hall, a bathroom, a bedroom barely large enough for the single bed and a dresser missing two of its five drawers.

2003 N.Y. Times 2 Mar. ii. 6/2 The penthouse apartment..[is] less ritzy than practical, with comfortable modern furniture and a Pullman kitchen in one room.

II. Simple uses.

4. A Pullman car; a sleeping car.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.

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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

1869 N.Y. Herald 9 Nov. 5/6 The train..consisted of two baggage cars, two passenger cars and two Pullman palace cars,..the baggage cars in front and the Pullmans in the rear of the train.

1876 World No. 112. 14 One may ask whether the Great Western might not be expected to have a Pullman attached.

1894 Daily News 5 Oct. 4/5 The locomotives, tenders, and all the front part of the train up to the Pullman were wrecked.

1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters vi. 66 McCoy strolled down to the station to inquire about the lower he had reserved in the Pullman.

1970 P. Berton National Dream i. vii. 52 The Miller coupling and the air brake had not yet been invented so that passengers were jolted fearfully in their Pullmans.

2002 Railway World Sept. 79/1 Ian Alan Ltd celebrated 25 years in the business by chartering 4472 and a rake of Pullmans to the West Country.

5. Originally and chiefly North American. A Pullman suitcase (see sense 2).

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag > hand-held

mailc1275

clothesack1393

cloak-bagc1540

portmanteau1553

valance?a1562

pockmanty1575

cap-case1577

cloak-bearer1580

night baga1618

valisea1630

toilet1656

Roger1665

shirt case1823

weekend case1827

carpet-bag1830

holdall1851

handbag1859

suitcase1873

sample case1875

gripsack1877

case1879

grip1879

Gladstone (bag)1882

traveller1895

vanity-case1913

luggage1915

revelation1923

two-suiter1923

overnight bag1925

one-suiter1933

suiter1933

overnight case1934

Samsonite1939

flight bag1943

Pullman1946

grip-bag1958

overnighter1959

carry-on1960

Vuitton1975

go bag1991

1946 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 10 Nov. 15/5 (advt.) 15 and 21-inch over-nite cases, $6.50 to $18; Pullmans, $18 to $24.

1958 Life 19 May 43/2 (advt.) Sets of three pieces, striking Platt ‘Riviera’ luggage. 14″ train case, 21″ overnight and 26″ Pullman.

1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. (Suppl.) 2/3 There is a great range of suitcases, pullmans, suiters, flight bags, and holdalls by Antler.

2004 N. Ragen Covenant ix. 55 Ah, there it was, her enormous pullman chugging down the conveyor belt, its worn tan leather covered with stickers.

6. U.S. A Pullman kitchen or kitchen unit (see sense 3); (also) a sink unit.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > types of furniture generally > for kitchen or bathroom

vanity set1930

Vanitory1951

Pullman1952

peninsula1955

vanity1967

vanity unit1973

1952 Sunday Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 22 June (Southland Mag.) 10 (advt.) Ceramic (clay) tile. For drainboards, Pullmans, walls and floors.

1965 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 22 Jan. (advt.) Carpentry, finish work, paneling, pullmans, alterations, remodeling, stair work, bars.

1973 Sunday 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.

1981 Arcadia (Calif.) Tribune 5 Apr. b1/3 All [suites] include..separate dressing areas with cultured marble double pullmans, make-up vanities and decorator-selected fixtures.

Derivatives

ˈPullmanize v. transitive to fit (a vehicle) with sleeping accommodation.

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1924 Indianapolis Star 29 July 6/2 The narrators..traveled by motor car, sometimes staying at hotels, sometimes Pullmanizing their car and sleeping in it.

1956 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 6 Dec. 9/7 (advt.) Our cabs are pullmanized for transporting patients to and from hospitals, any distance.

2002 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 1 June b10 The Model A was their transportation for the honeymoon... ‘We Pullmanized it for our honeymoon.’

† Pullmanizing n. Obsolete the practice of travelling in a Pullman car.Apparently an isolated use.

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1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited II. i. 2 After three or four days' Pullmanising.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pullman
释义	Pullmann. Brit. /ˈpʊlmən/, U.S. /ˈpʊlm(ə)n/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pullman. Etymology: < the name of George M. Pullman (1831–97), U.S. industrialist, who designed a new, more comfortable sleeping car in 1865 and founded Pullman's Palace Car Company in 1867. I. Compounds. 1. a. (a) attributive. Designating a railway carriage affording special comfort, esp. one with sleeping facilities.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [adjective] > types of railway carriage or wagon > types of carriage or compartment > including or connected with sleeping cars Pullman1867 sleeper1875 1867 N.Y. Times 11 June 5/2 The train itself consisted of a provision-car, one of the Pullman sleeping-cars, and the car built..for the special use of President Lincoln. 1877 Daily News 21 Nov. 5/6 I was as glad to hire it as though I had obtained a Pullman saloon. 1883 Manitoba Daily Free Press 13 Dec. 1/7 The emigrant coaches in almost every other respect are similar to the Pullman carriages. 1915 ‘B. M. Bower’ Flying U's Last Stand ii. 7 [He] attempted to negotiate the narrow passage into a Pullman sleeper. 1981 Times 11 Nov. 3/3 (caption) Four luxury Pullman carriages and a baggage brake have been restored to their decadent Thirties grandeur by Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Ltd. 2001 L. Menand Metaphysical Club (2002) xii. 294 The ARU [= American Railway Union] ordered all switchmen to refuse to switch Pullman sleeping cars onto trains. (b) spec. in Pullman car.† Pullman-carring n. Obsolete = Pullmanizing n. at Derivatives.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ 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. b. In more general attributive use with reference to such carriages, as Pullman porter, Pullman train, etc. ΚΠ 1874 Times 4 Nov. 6/5 The Pullman train, which now runs between Bradford and London, keeps time to a minute, as the number of carriages is limited. 1885 S. Baxter in Harper's Mag. Apr. 698/2 The traveller..goes to sleep in his Pullman berth. 1893 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends 54 The Pullman porter shouts to her to look out. 1954 W. Tucker Wild Talent (1955) v. 58 Ray Palmer slept soundly in the topmost Pullman bed. 1977 Time 18 Apr. 22/2 The cabin can accommodate eight passengers on comfortable Pullman seats. 1998 F. Flagg Welcome to World, Baby Girl! 424 It was still the 1940s in America, and many whites had never met a Negro other than a maid or a Pullman porter. 2. attributive. Originally and chiefly North American. Designating a large suitcase, of a type originally designed to fit under the seat in a Pullman car. ΚΠ 1906 Chillicothe (Missouri) Morning Constit. 22 Dec. 4/7 (advt.) Pullman case rubber lined $1.00 to $2.25. 1936 Times 27 July 7/5 A Pullman case has three shoulders for frocks, a shoe case, and a hollow space with capacity for many other garments. 1993 D. Parry Hummingbird Soup xxxvi. 221 Lonny explained that a seventy-gallon sewage pump-out tank in a mobile home would hold two pullman suitcases. 3. attributive. Chiefly U.S. Designating a compact prefabricated unit of kitchen or bathroom fixtures, typically designed to fit compactly along a single wall. ΚΠ 1915 Los Angeles Times 7 Feb. iv. 6 (advt.) To let—choicest flat... Pullman buffet kitchen. 1967 ‘L. Egan’ Nameless Ones iii. 37 A chipped but spotless pullman washstand. 1968 ‘J. R. Macdonald’ Instant Enemy xxv. 155 It was what is called a studio apartment, consisting of one large room with a pullman kitchen. 1994 C. Grant X-Files: Goblins ix. 99 A small room, a Pullman kitchenette at the end of a short hall, a bathroom, a bedroom barely large enough for the single bed and a dresser missing two of its five drawers. 2003 N.Y. Times 2 Mar. ii. 6/2 The penthouse apartment..[is] less ritzy than practical, with comfortable modern furniture and a Pullman kitchen in one room. II. Simple uses. 4. A Pullman car; a sleeping car.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom. 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 1869 N.Y. Herald 9 Nov. 5/6 The train..consisted of two baggage cars, two passenger cars and two Pullman palace cars,..the baggage cars in front and the Pullmans in the rear of the train. 1876 World No. 112. 14 One may ask whether the Great Western might not be expected to have a Pullman attached. 1894 Daily News 5 Oct. 4/5 The locomotives, tenders, and all the front part of the train up to the Pullman were wrecked. 1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters vi. 66 McCoy strolled down to the station to inquire about the lower he had reserved in the Pullman. 1970 P. Berton National Dream i. vii. 52 The Miller coupling and the air brake had not yet been invented so that passengers were jolted fearfully in their Pullmans. 2002 Railway World Sept. 79/1 Ian Alan Ltd celebrated 25 years in the business by chartering 4472 and a rake of Pullmans to the West Country. 5. Originally and chiefly North American. A Pullman suitcase (see sense 2). ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag > hand-held mailc1275 clothesack1393 cloak-bagc1540 portmanteau1553 valance?a1562 pockmanty1575 cap-case1577 cloak-bearer1580 night baga1618 valisea1630 toilet1656 Roger1665 shirt case1823 weekend case1827 carpet-bag1830 holdall1851 handbag1859 suitcase1873 sample case1875 gripsack1877 case1879 grip1879 Gladstone (bag)1882 traveller1895 vanity-case1913 luggage1915 revelation1923 two-suiter1923 overnight bag1925 one-suiter1933 suiter1933 overnight case1934 Samsonite1939 flight bag1943 Pullman1946 grip-bag1958 overnighter1959 carry-on1960 Vuitton1975 go bag1991 1946 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 10 Nov. 15/5 (advt.) 15 and 21-inch over-nite cases, $6.50 to $18; Pullmans, $18 to $24. 1958 Life 19 May 43/2 (advt.) Sets of three pieces, striking Platt ‘Riviera’ luggage. 14″ train case, 21″ overnight and 26″ Pullman. 1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. (Suppl.) 2/3 There is a great range of suitcases, pullmans, suiters, flight bags, and holdalls by Antler. 2004 N. Ragen Covenant ix. 55 Ah, there it was, her enormous pullman chugging down the conveyor belt, its worn tan leather covered with stickers. 6. U.S. A Pullman kitchen or kitchen unit (see sense 3); (also) a sink unit. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > types of furniture generally > for kitchen or bathroom vanity set1930 Vanitory1951 Pullman1952 peninsula1955 vanity1967 vanity unit1973 1952 Sunday Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 22 June (Southland Mag.) 10 (advt.) Ceramic (clay) tile. For drainboards, Pullmans, walls and floors. 1965 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 22 Jan. (advt.) Carpentry, finish work, paneling, pullmans, alterations, remodeling, stair work, bars. 1973 Sunday 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. 1981 Arcadia (Calif.) Tribune 5 Apr. b1/3 All [suites] include..separate dressing areas with cultured marble double pullmans, make-up vanities and decorator-selected fixtures. Derivatives ˈPullmanize v. transitive to fit (a vehicle) with sleeping accommodation. ΚΠ 1924 Indianapolis Star 29 July 6/2 The narrators..traveled by motor car, sometimes staying at hotels, sometimes Pullmanizing their car and sleeping in it. 1956 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 6 Dec. 9/7 (advt.) Our cabs are pullmanized for transporting patients to and from hospitals, any distance. 2002 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 1 June b10 The Model A was their transportation for the honeymoon... ‘We Pullmanized it for our honeymoon.’ † Pullmanizing n. Obsolete the practice of travelling in a Pullman car.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited II. i. 2 After three or four days' Pullmanising. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1867
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