pantechnicon

pantechnicon englannista suomeksi

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0. Substantiivi

pantechnicon englanniksi

1. A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale. (defdate)

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3. (quote-journal) For the Proprietors by George Hebert,(nb...)|year=1854|pages=225–226|passage=To-day will the mighty cobweb-dome receive its last survey, previous to the contractors for the building handing it over to the painters and decorators. When these have accomplished their task, then will the walls and counters begin to receive their varied and valuable stores of natural and artificial productions. Waggon-loads upon waggon-loads must, we know, be exhausted, and pantechnica emptied, before the vast area, so delicately covered, shall cry “Enough, enough;” (..)

4. (quote-journal) V.—Warming and Ventilation of Houses.|editor=Hart (medical journalist)|Ernest Hart|journal=BMJ|The British Medical Journal: Being the Journal of the British Medical Association|volume=II for 1873|location=London|publisher=(...) For the Medical Association|Association by Thomas Richards,(nb...)|date=22 February 1873|page=208|column=1|passage=We have a few economic museums, it is true; but they lack the notoriety which results from national support; and, if not carefully watched by their philanthropic promoters, these otherwise excellent places are apt to degenerate into mere advertising pantechnica.

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6. ''Originally'' pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or van. (defdate)

7. 1911, (w), ''Card|The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns'', London: (w), (w) 492063506; republished Toronto, Ont.: Briggs (publisher)|William Briggs, 1910s, (w) 225424669, page 69:

The pantechnicon was running away. It had perceived the wrath to come and was fleeing. Its guardians had evidently left it imperfectly scotched or braked, and it had got loose. (..) The onrush of the pantechnicon constituted a clear crisis. Lower down the gradient of Brougham Street was more dangerous, and it was within the possibilities that people inhabiting the depths of the street might find themselves pitched out of bed by the sharp corner of a pantechnicon that was determined to be a pantechnicon.

8. 1978, (w), ''(novel)|Livia: Or Buried Alive: A Novel'', London: (w), (ISBN); republished in ''Avignon Quintet|The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx'', London: Faber and Faber, 1992, (ISBN), page 426:

In fact, as they later found, the auxiliary vehicle was a very large removers' van – the kind known as a pantechnicon.

9. (quote-book)&93; and pantechnicon had both been driving in the direction of the roadblock, the R12 behind the pantechnicon.

10. (quote-book) ''Bulstrode v Lambert'' 1953 1 WLR 1064 (..) The plaintiff made use of the route with furniture vans and pantechnicons for bringing goods to the mart. The defendant objected on the ground that the parked pantechnicons interfered with his business as a cafe and car hire proprietor, but Upjohn, Baron Upjohn|Upjohn J held that the plaintiff could use the way with pantechnicons which could park as long as was necessary for loading and unloading, this being an incident of a right of way.