Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A long and light vehicle furnished with transverse seats, and generally open at the sides or inclosed with curtains. Sometimes
charabanc .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise.
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Examples
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Pending the return of the motor-omnibuses, a service of _char-a-bancs_ has been started on the boulevards, which reminds Parisians of the days of the popular "Madeleine-Bastille" omnibus.
Paris War Days Diary of an American Charles Inman Barnard
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From its summit they could see toy villages and church, spires and motors and char-a-bancs running like alarmed insects along the white, winding lanes.
The Dark House 1922
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Ghibellines, though the two towns are at advertisemental war, the favourite pleasure drive of the char-a-bancs of Sandbourne is to
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It was past noon, and they were already returning, when they came on the char-a-bancs containing the head of the strike-breaking column.
The Freelands John Galsworthy 1900
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Shops were shut; special trains ran in to Grammoch-town; and the road from the little town was dazed with char-a-bancs, brakes, wagonettes, carriages, carts, foot-passengers, wending toward the Dalesman's Daughter.
Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900
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It was past noon, and they were already returning, when they came on the char-a-bancs containing the head of the strike-breaking column.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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And, as it happened, just then the stillness was sensibly broken up, and the magic of the night encroached upon by the passing of a couple of _char-a-bancs_ in the road below, loaded up with trippers faring homewards from a day's outing at Hampton Court.
The Far Horizon Lucas Malet 1891
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And at last Sister Hyacinthe was able to install herself with Elise Rouquet and Sophie Couteau in a large _char-a-bancs_, in which Ferrand and
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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And at last Sister Hyacinthe was able to install herself with Elise Rouquet and Sophie Couteau in a large _char-a-bancs_, in which Ferrand and
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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And at last Sister Hyacinthe was able to install herself with Elise Rouquet and Sophie Couteau in a large/char-a-bancs/, in which Ferrand and
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 ��mile Zola 1871
raven_in_the_woods commented on the word char-a-bancs
found in Hugh Walpole's Portrait of a Man With Red Hair
October 15, 2012