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

The ambulance drivers—Singer and Hughes—neglecting to unlock the ambulance doors, ran up the road and began working with the drivers of the camion to get the great van on the road again.

From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White

It has been said that the first battle of Verdun was won by the camion service.

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

The 2nd Division came hurrying from their rest billets near Chaumont-en-Vexin, northwest of Paris; the 3rd Division came thundering by train and camion from Chateau-Villain, southeast of Paris.

From Aces Up by Covington Clarke

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

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

The men packed into the camions had broken through the canvas covers and leaned out, waving their arms and shouting.

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