Word: pantechnicon
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...hoover. The housewife will find that while there are no eggplants or zucchini in the food stores, aubergines and courgettes taste exactly like them. If she finds it all too baffling and wants to return home, no moving van will pull up to her front door, but a pantechnicon will...
...lordship found himself on the defensive. Is it not true, asked M.C. Bergen Evans, that "you in England refer to what we call slums as depressed areas? Do you refer to unemployed people as a redundancy of workers? Do you refer to a moving van as a pantechnicon?" All too true, said his lordship, and added sadly that Britain's ratcatchers-"a most admirable set of men"-have decided it would be more dignified to be called rodent operators...
...ambulance driver! In other words, I rattle round pitch dark streets in a three-ton furniture pantechnicon. God help my poor bloody patients. I bet I cause more casualties than I succour...
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