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 R. H. (Rees Howell) Gronow
Why add to your carpet-bag of troubles the contents of a lady's imperials and bonnet-boxes, and the travelling fourgon required by the nursery?
From Kenelm Chillingly — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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 Ellen Newbold La Motte
"Be good enough, Monsieur Gregoire, to have my trunks taken down; there are two in the fourgon, and a cap-case on the large carriage."
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
Behind this fourgon came the huntsmen, all on horseback, some in long scarlet redingotes, others clad out of courtesy in uniform like that worn by the young Marquis de Pont Brillant.
From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Eug?ne Sue
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 L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
It is crowded with your fourgons and your ambulances.
From The Adventures of Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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 E. P. Robins
Does my lord carry bravos for couriers, and stilettos in the fourgons?
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
