char-à-banc
Americannoun
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char-à-bancs
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of char-à-banc
1810–20; back formation from French char-à-bancs literally, car with benches, the -s being taken as plural ending of word as a whole
Example Sentences
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There will be eight of us, and the char-à-banc holds twelve, so we shall have plenty of room.”
From Sisters Three by Lloyd, Stanley
As it was she sulked, and when the char-à-banc arrived, although Irene beckoned her to a place beside herself and Peachy, she took no notice and waited till everybody else had scrambled in.
From The Jolliest School of All by Brazil, Angela
A char-à-banc will be at the door at half-past ten to-morrow, good people.
From Sisters Three by Lloyd, Stanley
He felt genuinely sorry for her, but his only part was to get out and hand these radiant visions into the char-à-banc.
From The Californians by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
It would be a longer expedition even than to Vesuvius, and as many were anxious to take part it was arranged to hire a motor char-à-banc to accommodate about twenty-four girls and several teachers.
From The Jolliest School of All by Brazil, Angela
We then mounted the two char-à-bancs which were waiting for us in front of the chateau, with their postilions and four horses; the piqueurs, in their saddles, were all ready to precede us.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
"Of course, I've only been in taxis and char-à-bancs and things, but I've always wanted to go in a real motor-car—a private one, I mean!"
From The Making of a Soul by Rhodes, Kathlyn
It blazed with color from May to November, and there was one of the Rodhaven drivers who on several occasions stopped his char-à-bancs to let the passengers have a long look at it.
From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.
We had left our carriage at St. Martin, and travelled in char-à-bancs, with which you and Sophy made me long ago acquainted—cousin-german to an Irish jaunting-car.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
The bath-houses were built, and the big char-à-bancs rolled down the dusty road to Ravenswood every morning.
From The Californians by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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