camion
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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
The French soldier strolled over to us; helped to straighten out the camion, and when we learned that he was going down the hill we gave him a lift.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
So I just climbed up in the second camion and backed it off into the bushes....
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
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
Automobiles containing officers, huge camions with soldiers packed like coffee-beans, foot-weary marching regiments, with no time to stop for a meal, halted a moment and bought the stock on hand.
From The Living Present by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
About eleven the big convoy of camions on the way to the front came through, lurching along the improvised road laid out across the fields.
From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield
On every hand we saw artillery parks, ammunition parks, and regiments resting, whilst along the road a long line of camions passed unceasingly.
From The White Road to Verdun by Kathleen Burke
