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Pannier   Listen
noun
Pannier  n.  
1.
A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass
2.
(Mil. Antiq.) A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles.
3.
A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London.
4.
A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand their dresses; a kind of bustle.





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"Pannier" Quotes from Famous Books



... were waiting at the doorway, both blinking sleepily in the morning air. At San Pietro's right side hung a tiny pannier, covered by a fringed white napkin, above which lay a small flask decorated with corn husk and gay yarn, where red wine sparkled like rubies in the sunshine. The varying degrees of the donkey's resignation were registered exactly in the changing angles at which ...
— Daphne, An Autumn Pastoral • Margaret Pollock Sherwood


Words linked to "Pannier" :   bag, wicker basket, hoop


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