camion

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

"Have you enough gasoline to go to the camp and back?" he inquired of the driver of the first camion to be loaded.

From The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces by Heywood Broun

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

The Camion Caravan," and I repeat it from memory: "Winding down through sleeping town Pale stars of early dawn; Like ancient knight with squire by side, Driver and helper now we ride— The camion caravan.

From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons

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

And since then the Government has let the camions that go through to the front, leave bread and meat and once a bag of potatoes for us.

From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield

I saw thousands of camions, ambulances, caissons, and wagons literally falling apart from neglect, and this in a country which is almost destitute of transport.

From The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

Through the town of Meaux went the long line of camions and to the village of Montriel-aux-Lions, less than four miles from the rapidly advancing German line.

From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Inez Bigwood