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  • noun Plural form of pantechnicon.

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Examples

  • Instead of turgid and unreadable documents, delivered to our in-trays by pantechnicons, we benefit from clear and concise reports that are professionally presented and a pleasure to read.

    The new IT training, part 4: The other option Clive Shepherd 2006

  • Instead of turgid and unreadable documents, delivered to our in-trays by pantechnicons, we benefit from clear and concise reports that are professionally presented and a pleasure to read.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Clive Shepherd 2006

  • Sealed packing-cases went north and east and west to various pantechnicons, and the engines were boxed with peculiar care.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • Johannesburg - only one of the 28 aircraft expected - reportedly filled nine pantechnicons with equipment.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • "Well, _entirely_ by accident, I happened to be taking a basin of chicken broth to old Mrs. Skinner -- you know, she lives in one of the Priory cottages -- on the very day the pantechnicons were delivering at the house, and I saw quite a number of the chairs and tables as they were being carried in."

    The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler

  • Sealed packing-cases went north and east and west to various pantechnicons, and the engines were boxed with peculiar care.

    The War in the Air 1906

  • When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the

    Ann Veronica, a modern love story 1906

  • All goods are delivered in our own heavily armoured pantechnicons.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914 Various 1898

  • There were also private _horrea_, built on speculation, to be let as strong-rooms like our modern vaults, storage-warehouses, and "pantechnicons."

    Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

  • It must have taken a fleet of pantechnicons to transfer Welsh National Opera's

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

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