char-à-banc
noun
a large bus used on sightseeing tours, especially one with open sides and no center aisle.
char-à-bancs
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pluralof char-à-banc.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They passed through Fair Oaks as usual on their afternoon drives, stopping for a chat; in their char-à-bancs or on the verandah.
From The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Women were taking down hoods, unharnessing the horses, fitting slats into outsides of wagons, rolling up blankets, unpacking from the char-à-bancs cooking utensils, children, grain-bags, long columns of bread, and hard-boiled eggs.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
But other things were tried—steamers on the Pol, char-à-bancs to various places of local interest, and so on—but, at this time, all these efforts failed.
From The Cathedral by Sir Hugh Walpole
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 L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
When he re-entered the ball-room some time after, the guests were on the corridor waiting for their char-à-bancs.
From A Daughter of the Vine by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
