Old tourist coach

• Vehicle for English outing
• Brief opportunity to secure Omani, perhaps, as coach
• A vehicle carrying many passengers
• Sailor can brew tea at first for the coach
• British bus for sightseers

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In the early days the novelty must have outweighed the discomfort, or no one would have travelled in the first charabancs. ▪ Most of the fathers chickened out, piling into the charabanc which held adults and adolescents. ▪ The ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
British for "sightseeing bus," 1811, originally in a Continental context (especially Swiss), from French char-à-bancs , literally "benched carriage," from char "wagon," from Latin carrus (see car ) + à "to" (see ad- ) + banc "bench" (see bench (n.)).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A charabanc or "char-à-banc" (often pronounced "sharra-bang" in colloquial British English) is a type of horse-drawn vehicle or early motor coach , usually open-topped, common in Britain during the early part of the 20th century. It has "benched seats arranged ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A horse-drawn, and then later, motorized omnibus with open sides, and often, no roof.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work" [syn: bus , autobus , coach , double-decker , jitney , motorbus , motorcoach , omnibus ]