charabanc
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of charabanc
C19: from French char-à-bancs, wagon with seats
Example Sentences
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But let’s not punish Johnson for the mute words of a charabanc.
From The Guardian • May 13, 2016
Phil Mickelson sports the sort of thick black gauntlets that Toad of Toad Hall would pull on for a spin in his charabanc.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2014
This second charabanc jumps around just as much as his first, taking in reggae, a piano ballad, soft rock and vocoder funk.
From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2012
Namely the same old primal activities that people have experienced forever without kidding themselves that, if the whole charabanc were to come to a halt tomorrow, they wouldn't be a little disappointed.
From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2012
But these futile ebullitions of malice are powerless to check the triumphal progress of the charabanc in the Eastern Counties.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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