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camion

[kam-ee-uhn, ka-myawn] / ˈkæm i ən, kaˈmjɔ̃ /


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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 White, William Allen

Roaring with heavy wheels, grinding with gears, throbbing with motors, camion after camion went by, slowly, stridently.

From One Man's Initiation—1917 by Dos Passos, John

In the camion sat Sheila O’Leary, late of the old San and later yet of the American Military Hospital No. 10.

From Leerie by Sawyer, Ruth

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

At 10 o'clock the same night camions were rumbling up, and after all the men had found places, started toward the fateful Marne.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various

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 Canfield, Dorothy

About eleven the big convoy of camions on the way to the front came through, lurching along the improvised road laid out across the fields.

From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy




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