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Definition of Drawing-room car
1. Noun. A passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs.
Generic synonyms: Carriage, Coach, Passenger Car
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawing-room Car
Literary usage of Drawing-room car
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases in the by Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson (1890)
"DRAWING ROOM CAR. See SLEEPING CAR COMPANIES. DRUNKENNESS. See CROSSING; CONTRIBUTORY
NEGLIGENCE; PASSENGERS; TRESPASSERS. DUTIES ON IMPORTS. 1. ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"125, introduced by the plaintiff in the case under consideration, authorizing
railroad and sleeping and drawing- room car companies to make contracts of ..."
3. Our Home Railways: How They Began and how They are Worked by William John Gordon (1910)
"... it as the example for his Nciv Drawing-Room Car, Boat Trains. book on tunnelling,
which is the standard work on the subject known to every engineer. ..."
4. Negligence: Rules--decisions--opinions by Edward Beers Thomas (1904)
"A passenger not provided with a seat in the common cars may enter the drawing-room
car and refuse to pay the extra fare, and for wrongful ejectment from the ..."
5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"Assuming for the purposes of the argument that the purchase by a passenger on a
train of a drawing-room ticket from a drawing-room car conductor has the ..."
6. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1880)
"NYC & HBRR Co. drawing-room car, and when called upon by the porter to pay
the -extra charge for a seat in that car, declined to pay the sum demanded, ..."
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