motor van
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of motor van
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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He rode about Northern Virginia on a three-wheel cycle and drove alone across the country on a specially equipped motor van.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2016
Returning in the carrier's motor van she sat nid-nod, while conversation ran blithe as a freshet over ulcered legs, murders, spring onions, and the price of eggs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sides of a motor van had been let down to form a speaking platform.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like a householder who took his visitors for tradesmen, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery stood in the door of his motor van and demanded icily : "What do you want?"
From Time Magazine Archive
The figure which had tried to dodge around the end of a motor van to escape observation looked nothing at all like the Sammy Pinkney the Kenway girls had formerly known.
From The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill
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