fourgon

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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

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

When I arrived at Ashford station I was met by two six-foot men in scarlet liveries, who had arrived with a fourgon, drawn by two splendid horses, into which they proposed to put my luggage.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.

"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

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)