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pullman
/ˈpʊlmən/
name 5noun 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
old, standard
PULLMAN + NOUN
author, car, ourselves, sleeper
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
A railroad passenger car; especially one of the luxurious ones named after the eponymous Pullman Palace Car Company.
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.
2
A train made up of Pullman coaches.
name
1
A surname, notably that of George Pullman.
2
A number of places in the United States:
3
A number of places in the United States:
4
A number of places in the United States:
5
A number of places in the United States:
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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 s
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We had the corner of a Pullman car to ourselves that evening as we whirled back to London.
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Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, was born in 1946 in the medieval city of Norwich.
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