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Pannier

noun

Either of a pair of bags or boxes hung over the rear wheel of a vehicle (as a bicycle).

A large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person.

Set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips.

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Etymology of 'Pannier'

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"Pannier" Quotes from Famous Books

... Indian who had charge of the house begged us to enter and consider it as our own. As the sun was high and the heat increasing, we were glad to find shelter beneath its roof. Here we spread the viands which had been brought in a pannier on the back of ...

— In New Granada - Heroes and Patriots • W.H.G. Kingston

... went about the house collecting such personal belongings of her own and mine as the lawyer told us we might remove without question. He himself came to the house on our last day, and made an inventory of the articles we removed, and having seen these safely bestowed in a pannier on the back of Ben Ivimey's son, who came to carry them away, we shut the doors of the old place, Mr. Vetch pocketed the keys, and we set ...

— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang

... the child in the pannier with a soft cushion under, and a silk cloth over her, so that she lay there happily. Then she took her ass's rein and went her ways over the waste toward Evilshaw; for, as ye may deem, where the houses and the street ended, the beaten way ...

— The Water of the Wondrous Isles • William Morris

... PANNIER MAN. A servant belonging to the Temple and Gray's Inn, whose office is to announce the dinner. This in the Temple, is done by blowing a horn; and in Gray's Inn proclaiming the word Manger, Manger, Manger, in ...

— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.

Words linked to "Pannier" : wicker basket, bag, hoop