Pullman

Definition

A railroad passenger car; especially one of the luxurious ones named after the eponymous Pullman Palace Car Company.

Etymology

Ellipsis of Pullman car, after the Pullman Palace Car Company, named after American engineer and industrialist George Pullman (1831–1897).

Example Sentences

• "It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day."