fourgon

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A hunting fourgon, drawn by two horses driven tandem, served as a funeral-car for a magnificent stag reposing upon a bed of green branches, with his enormous antlers adorned with long floating ribbons.

From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Sue, Eug?ne

"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 Lever, Charles James

"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

A heavy fourgon, loaded with military chests and boxes, seemed also to attract their attention, and call forth many a surmise as to its destination.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James

A whole fourgon could not have been sufficient to convey these packages from the French capital to the frontier.

From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.