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
Example Sentences
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There was Sir John's great carriage that would hold thirteen people; my Lord Methuselah's carriage, my Lord Bareacres' chariot, britzska, and fourgon, that anybody might pay for who liked.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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 — Volume 01 by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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
We found Daddy in the fourgon with the baggages, writing a story and laughing—making an awful row.'
From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood
A heavy fourgon, loaded with military chests and boxes, seemed also to attract their attention, and call forth many a surmise as to its destination.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever
It is crowded with your fourgons and your ambulances.
From The Adventures of Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Does my lord carry bravos for couriers, and stilettos in the fourgons?
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
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