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pantechnicon

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12 lettersPronunciation /pænˈtɛknɪkən/Part of speech nounSorted accehinnnoptStarts with PEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture)

Word origin

From Pantechnicon, a 19th-century firm which owned a building with a Greek-style facade of Doric columns in Motcomb Street, Belgrave Square, London, UK, with a picture gallery, a furniture shop, a shop selling carriages, and a warehouse for storing customers’ furniture and other items. The firm used large horse-drawn vans to collect and deliver their customers' property, which came to be known as Pantechnicon vans.

Used in a sentence

  • The Hyams extended their operations to London in 1845, when Lawrence Hyam became manager of the family’s pantechnica in Gracechurch Street, leaving his Bury St Edmunds shop in the management of one Joel Gale.
  • For we do not employ battleships as convoys, nor even as pantechnica conveying landing parties.
  • In fact, as they later found, the auxiliary vehicle was a very large removers' van – the kind known as a pantechnicon.

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