camion

Buy a gift, some kind of gift: a box of chocolate, a strand of pearls, an eau de parfum that fell off the back of a camion de livraison—all are worthy options.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2014

The word "camion" in Spanish usually refers to an 18-wheeler, but in Mexico it means "bus."

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2011

That night we bundled our bedding into the Ford camion, and slept in one of the deep champagne caves.

From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill

It was raining outside and now and then a dripping camion passed along the road, slithering through the mud.

From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos

In the camion sat Sheila O’Leary, late of the old San and later yet of the American Military Hospital No. 10.

From Leerie by Ruth Sawyer

Along the poplar-flickering roads south of Paris last week rolled two camions each bearing an enormous head.

From Time Magazine Archive

We passed other camions on the road and I looked at the country.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

The house shook, the windows rattled, the glasses danced on the sideboard to the thunder of the innumerable marching feet outside, to the endless rumble of the camions and artillery.

From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield

He waited for her eyes to open, then hailed her genially as he waved at a tangle of camions and ambulances now blocking the bridge.

From The Wrong Twin by Harry Leon Wilson

Too old to serve in the active army and so assigned to the more unromatic, uninteresting but vital work of loading camions, tending horses, or building and repairing roads back of the lines.

From "I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919 by Hilmar R. (Hilmar Robert) Baukhage