tonneau
noun
a rear part or compartment of an automobile body, containing seats for passengers.
tonneaus
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pluralof tonneau.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Fingers had pointed, hundreds of times, to kennels or to the open doorways or to canoe-bottoms or to car tonneaus or to whatsoever spot the dog in question was desired to betake himself.
From Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
Link, in his own occasional trudges along this bit of state road, had often seen costly dogs in the tonneaus of passing cars.
From His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
Now the front wheels overlapped the rear ones of the green machine—now they were at the side door of the tonneau—now the two tonneaus were even!
From Larry Dexter's Great Search or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire by Howard Roger Garis
Many auto loads arrived with a shout and claimants leaped from the tonneaus, falling into line almost before the vehicles had stopped.
From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Oscar Micheaux
They came from behind, swinging across his path in a blur of dust, laughter and shrill cries rising from their crowded tonneaus.
From Miss Maitland Private Secretary by Geraldine Bonner
