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Pullman

(po͝ol′mən)

1. A railroad parlor car or sleeping car. Also called Pullman car.

2. A large suitcase. Also called Pullman case.

[After George Mortimer Pullman (1831-1897), American industrialist and inventor.]

pull·man

(po͝ol′mən)

adj.

Small, long, and narrow in architectural design: a pullman hall; a pullman kitchen.

[From its resemblance to a Pullman, railroad car.]

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Pullman

(ˈpʊlmən)

n, pl -mans

(Railways) a luxurious railway coach, esp a sleeping car. Also called: Pullman car or Pullman carriage

[C19: named after George M. Pullman (1831–97), the US inventor who first manufactured such coaches]

Pullman

(ˈpʃulmən)

(Biography) Philip. born 1946, British author. Writing primarily for older children, he is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials (1997–2000)

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Pull•man

(ˈpʊl mən)

pl. -mans.

1. Trademark. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.

2. (often l.c.) Also called Pull′man case`. a large suitcase.

3. George Mortimer, 1831–97, U.S. inventor.

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Noun

Pullman - luxurious passenger car; for day or night travel

Pullman car

carriage, passenger car, coach - a railcar where passengers ride

Translations

carrozza di lusso vagone letto

Pullman

® [ˈpʊlmən] N (Pullmans (pl))

1. (Brit) (also Pullman carriage) → vagón m de primera clase

2. (US) (also Pullman car) → coche m cama

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Pullman

[ˈpʊlmən] n

(British) (also Pullman carriage) (= luxury carriage) → voiture f pullman inv

(British) (also Pullman train) (= luxury train) → train m pullman inv

(US) (also Pullman car) (= sleeping carriage) → wagon-lit mpull-out [ˈpʊlaʊt]

(= withdrawal) [forces, troops] → retrait m

(in magazine) → supplément m détachable

modif [magazine, pages] → détachable

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Pullman®

n (= Pullman car) → Pullmanwagen m; (= Pullman train) → Pullman® m

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Pullman

[ˈpʊlmən] n (also Pullman car) → pullman m inv

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They are in a Pullman, with her maid and plenty of people; and she expressly gave him leave to go with her.

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At that time one Felice Van Verdighan, accompanied by two maids and a lap-dog, with another maid for the lap-dog,* entered a drawing-room on a Pullman,** and a few minutes later was speeding west.

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Martin thought; you can travel in a Pullman while I starve for the paltry five dollars you owe me.

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It is one of the most incredible miracles of telephony that a passenger at New York, who is about to start for Chicago on a fast express, may telephone to Chicago from the drawing-room of a Pullman. He himself, on the swiftest of all trains, will not arrive in Chicago for eighteen hours; but the flying words can make the journey, and RETURN, while his train is waiting for the signal to start.

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It was a tall well built young man who nudged one of his younger companions as the girl crossed the platform to enter her Pullman.

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The others were on board, leaning out from the platform of a Pullman, crying to him to hurry.

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It was the morning, at late getting-up times in a Pullman, when the accident happened.

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Bartley caught up his bag and hurried through the Pullman coaches until he found the conductor.

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Good Lord, do you think you're travelling on a Pullman?"

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Well, I took my handful of copy paper down to the railroad yards (for local color), dangled my legs from a side-door Pullman, which is another name for a box-car, and ran off the stuff.

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We had the corner of a Pullman car to ourselves that evening as we whirled back to London, and I fancy that the journey was a short one to Colonel Ross as well as to myself, as we listened to our companion's narrative of the events which had occurred at the Dartmoor training-stables upon the Monday night, and the means by which he had unravelled them.

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"We have another two Pullmans under development in the Middle East, which will bring an additional 822 rooms," concluded Landais.