fourgon
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He brought with him a light cart to carry forage, and a fourgon for his own baggage.
From Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by Gronow, R. H. (Rees Howell)
It is much more easy to accuse one sex than to excuse the other; 'tis according to the saying, "Le fourgon se moque de la paele."
From The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 15 by Cotton, Charles
"I'll soon scatter them, anyway," says R———; and he reaches for a pair of binoculars hanging up in the fourgon.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
After that I was given a fourgon, a wagon in which to transport the loaves of bread.
From The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by La Motte, Ellen Newbold
Give the bearer of this my dressing-case, and clothes for some days, and have the fourgon ready packed to start for Tubbermore on receiving my next orders.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
The details of litter-bearers were all out there, whose duty it was to pick up the wounded under fire, and with them were the ambulance wagons and fourgons of the medical train.
From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.
It is crowded with your fourgons and your ambulances.
From The Adventures of Gerard by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
This will give you a vague idea of the amount of baggage which had to be transported in the fourgons.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
Does my lord carry bravos for couriers, and stilettos in the fourgons?
From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace
