camion
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Buy a gift, some kind of gift: a box of chocolate, a strand of pearls, an eau de parfum that fell off the back of a camion de livraison—all are worthy options.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2014
The word "camion" in Spanish usually refers to an 18-wheeler, but in Mexico it means "bus."
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2011
The ambulance drivers—Singer and Hughes—neglecting to unlock the ambulance doors, ran up the road and began working with the drivers of the camion to get the great van on the road again.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
So I just climbed up in the second camion and backed it off into the bushes....
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
However, I got off at last in a "camion," and when I arrived I found the little station hospital and salle and Lady Bagot's hospital crowded with men in khaki.
From My War Experiences in Two Continents by Betty Keays-Young Salmon
Along the poplar-flickering roads south of Paris last week rolled two camions each bearing an enormous head.
From Time Magazine Archive
We passed other camions on the road and I looked at the country.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
Almost immediately we turned into the Verdun route we met again the caravan of automobiles, of camions, as the French say.
From They Shall Not Pass by Frank H. (Frank Herbert) Simonds
The camions started back, while soldiers and officers stretched out along the roadside to snatch a few hours of sleep.
Every little while, slithering through the rain, splashing mud to the right and left, a convoy of camions went by and disappeared, truck after truck, in the white streaming rain.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
