Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wagon for carrying baggage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ammunition-wagon or tumbril; a baggage-cart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An ammunition wagon.
- noun A French baggage wagon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A French baggage
wagon . - noun An
ammunition wagon.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It's a very short train - Just four sleeping-cars, with a baggage van 'fourgon' in French at either end.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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It's a very short train - Just four sleeping-cars, with a baggage van 'fourgon' in French at either end.
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Some men, horribly wounded, were being sent away by rail in a covered waggon ( "fourgon").
My War Experiences in Two Continents Betty Keays-Young [Editor] Salmon 1890
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I had offered him the couch, but Jean-Marc insisted that the man, who went by "Vincent," * would be fine in the fourgon.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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I had offered him the couch, but Jean-Marc insisted that the man, who went by "Vincent," * would be fine in the fourgon.
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I had offered him the couch, but Jean-Marc insisted that the man, who went by "Vincent," * would be fine in the fourgon.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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Then came the fourgon with the rest of the retainers, the heavy baggage, and as much as it could carry of the mud and dust which the other vehicles left behind.
Little Dorrit 2007
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After that I was given a _fourgon_, a wagon in which to transport the loaves of bread.
The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917
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But no; the brigadier's servant and the mess-waiter, who was a high-spirited and intelligent dragoon, sought to vary the _ennui_ of the march, and to assert their superiority over the Kaffirs in the matter of stage-driving, by taking the _fourgon_ and its half broken team full gallop down the incline terminating in Houwater _vlei_.
On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913
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Now the Brigade state _fourgon_ with a span of four mules was a big enterprise, and if treated gently might have ministered to the comfort of the staff for many months.
On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913
bilby commented on the word fourgon
... conclusion.
August 8, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word fourgon
with all its french baggage
August 8, 2009