fourgon

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A hunting fourgon, drawn by two horses driven tandem, served as a funeral-car for a magnificent stag reposing upon a bed of green branches, with his enormous antlers adorned with long floating ribbons.

From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Sue, Eug?ne

He brought with him a light cart to carry forage, and a fourgon for his own baggage.

From Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by Gronow, R. H. (Rees Howell)

There are only two ways of traveling: in your own carriage, with courier and fourgon, like Russian or transatlantic noble, or with vetturino.

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

Then came the fourgon with the rest of the retainers, the heavy baggage, and as much as it could carry of the mud and dust which the other vehicles left behind.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles

It is much more easy to accuse one sex than to excuse the other; 'tis according to the saying,                "Le fourgon se moque de la paele."

From The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 15 by Cotton, Charles