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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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
All morning, carriages, coaches, silent-moving motorcars, char-à-bancs with rowdy parties, moke-carts, people on bicycles and afoot, streamed out of Liverpool.
From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant
"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 Kathlyn Rhodes
We started at five o'clock the next morning in a big, open char-à-bancs, and went through the most beautiful forest.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
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 Augustus J. C. Hare
