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camions

  • plural
    of camion.
    camion
    noun
    a truck used for carrying freight or military supplies, equipment, and troops.

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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

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

On every hand we saw artillery parks, ammunition parks, and regiments resting, whilst along the road a long line of camions passed unceasingly.

From The White Road to Verdun by Kathleen Burke

And since then the Government has let the camions that go through to the front, leave bread and meat and once a bag of potatoes for us.

From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield