parlor car
    n 1: a passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for
         individual chairs [syn: parlor car, parlour car,
         drawing-room car, palace car, chair car]

Parlor \Par"lor\, n. [OE. parlour, parlur, F. parloir, LL.
   parlatorium. See Parley.] [Written also parlour.]
   1. A room for business or social conversation, for the
      reception of guests, etc. Specifically:
      (a) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the
          inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each
          other, or with visitors and friends from without.
          --Piers Plowman.
      (b) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family
          and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal
          uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the
          dining room of a house having few apartments, as a
          London house, where the dining parlor is usually on
          the ground floor.
      (c) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the
          room where visitors are received and entertained; a
          room in a private house where people can sit and talk
          and relax, not usually the same as the dining room.
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   Note: "In England people who have a drawing-room no longer
         call it a parlor, as they called it of old and till
         recently." --Fitzed. Hall.
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   2. A room in an inn or club where visitors can be received.
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   Parlor car. See Palace car, under Car.
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Car \Car\, n. [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a
   Celtic word; cf. W. car, Armor. karr, Ir. & Gael. carr. cf.
   Chariot.]
   1. A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but
      two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
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   2. A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad. [U. S.]
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   Note: In England a railroad passenger car is called a railway
         carriage; a freight car a goods wagon; a platform car a
         goods truck; a baggage car a van. But styles of car
         introduced into England from America are called cars;
         as, tram car. Pullman car. See Train.
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   3. A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor,
      dignity, or solemnity. [Poetic].
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            The gilded car of day.                --Milton.
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            The towering car, the sable steeds.   --Tennyson.
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   4. (Astron.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great
      Bear, or the Dipper.
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            The Pleiads, Hyads, and the Northern Car. --Dryden.
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   5. The cage of a lift or elevator.
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   6. The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to
      contain passengers, ballast, etc.
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   7. A floating perforated box for living fish. [U. S.]
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   Car coupling, or Car coupler, a shackle or other device
      for connecting the cars in a railway train. [U. S.]

   Dummy car (Railroad), a car containing its own steam power
      or locomotive.

   Freight car (Railrood), a car for the transportation of
      merchandise or other goods. [U. S.]

   Hand car (Railroad), a small car propelled by hand, used by
      railroad laborers, etc. [U. S.]

   Horse car, or Street car, an omnibus car, draw by horses
      or other power upon rails laid in the streets. [U. S.]

   Palace car, Drawing-room car, Sleeping car, Parlor
   car, etc. (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished
      for the comfort of travelers.
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