fourgon
Americannoun
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fourgons
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of fourgon
C19: from French: from Old French forgon poker, from furgier to search, ultimately from Latin fūr thief
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After that I was given a fourgon, a wagon in which to transport the loaves of bread.
From The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by Ellen Newbold La Motte
It was while observing this incident, that an orderly delivered into his hands some maps and papers that had just been captured from the fourgon of a staff-officer.
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever
On the afternoon of May 18th, R———makes a start with the fourgon.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
A hunting fourgon, drawn by two horses driven tandem, served as a funeral-car for a magnificent stag reposing upon a bed of green branches, with his enormous antlers adorned with long floating ribbons.
From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Eug?ne Sue
Why add to your carpet-bag of troubles the contents of a lady's imperials and bonnet-boxes, and the travelling fourgon required by the nursery?
From Kenelm Chillingly — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
The details of litter-bearers were all out there, whose duty it was to pick up the wounded under fire, and with them were the ambulance wagons and fourgons of the medical train.
From The Downfall by E. P. Robins
Does my lord carry bravos for couriers, and stilettos in the fourgons?
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
This will give you a vague idea of the amount of baggage which had to be transported in the fourgons.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
It is crowded with your fourgons and your ambulances.
From The Adventures of Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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