pantechnicon
A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of manufactured articles…A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale.
Meaning
2 senses(UK)Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van.
a large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture)
(UK)A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale.
Origin
From Pantechnicon, a 19th-century firm which owned a building with a Greek-style facade ofFrom Pantechnicon, a 19th-century firm which owned a building with a Greek-style facade of Doric columns in Motcomb Street, Belgrave Square, London, UK, with a picture gallery, a furniture shop, a shop selling carriages, and a warehouse for storing customers’ furniture and other items. The firm used large horse-drawn vans to collect and deliver their customers' property, which came to be known as Pantechnicon vans.
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Forms
plural: pantechnicons / pantechnica| Singular | pantechnicon |
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| Plural | pantechnicons / pantechnica |
regular
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.