fourgon
noun
a long covered wagon for carrying baggage, goods, military supplies, etc.; a van or tumbril.
fourgons
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pluralof fourgon.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
