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
In the war of 1870 he drove a team instead of a camion.
From "I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919 by Hilmar R. (Hilmar Robert) Baukhage
But I was in luck 'cause a Frenchman had just started his camion an' I jumped in and said the gendarmes were after me.
From Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
That night we bundled our bedding into the Ford camion, and slept in one of the deep champagne caves.
From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
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
They staggered along the slippery footpath beside the road, splashed every instant with mud by camions, huge and dark, that roared grindingly by.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
The house shook, the windows rattled, the glasses danced on the sideboard to the thunder of the innumerable marching feet outside, to the endless rumble of the camions and artillery.
From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield
I could almost hear the lilt of the verses as our car slipped through the tangle of motor camions and gun-carriages on the way thither.
From Everyman's Land by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
