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Pantechnicon
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pantechnicon
pantechnicon
English
An old-fashioned horse-drawn pantechnicon from the Milestones Museum of Living History in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK
Noun
pantechnicon (plural pantechnicons)
- (chiefly Britain) A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale. [from 19th c.]
- (chiefly Britain) Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van. [from 19th c.]
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia: Or Buried Alive: A Novel, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-11297-5; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, 1992, ISBN 978-0-571-16328-1, page 426:
- In fact, as they later found, the auxiliary vehicle was a very large removers' van – the kind known as a pantechnicon.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia: Or Buried Alive: A Novel, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-11297-5; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, 1992, ISBN 978-0-571-16328-1, page 426:
Synonyms
- moving van
- removal van
Derived terms
- pantech (Britain), pantech van (Australia)