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語源

The Virginia City, a Pullman coach manufactured in 1928 and now operated by Private Rail Cars for charter or hire

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

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpʊlmən/
• ハイフネーション: Pull‧man

名詞

Pullman (複数形 Pullmans)

1. (rail transport, US) A railroad passenger car; especially one of the luxurious ones named after the eponymous Pullman Palace Car Company.
   • 1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:

     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.