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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A railroad car for day travel fitted with individual reserved seats.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A railway passenger-car or -carriage for day travel, furnished more luxuriously than the ordinary cars; a drawing-room car.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs

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