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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pantechnicon
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After having to make three attempts to turn the huge pantechnicon into our lane, they finally succeeded.
▪ But for Major's official papers, the pantechnicon drawing up at the back door might be unnecessary.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pantechnicon

Pantechnicon \Pan*tech"ni*con\, n. [NL. See Pan-, and Technic.] A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale.

Wiktionary
pantechnicon

n. 1 (context chiefly UK English) A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale. 2 (context chiefly UK English) A van, especially a large removal van. Originally (term: pantechnicon van).

WordNet
pantechnicon

n. a large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture)

Usage examples of "pantechnicon".

Just as the Empire desk and the Windsor chairs and the gilt rosewood mirror Ginger had always loved and which Lily had said might as well be hers now, had been carried off a week before by another band of movers and were rolling west in the back of a fast pantechnicon van, on toward the prairie.

Sealed packing-cases went north and east and west to various pantechnicons, and the engines were boxed with peculiar care.

And nobody was going to bring a fleet of pantechnicons and remove the stable block en masse.

In a cramped environment like the Pantechnicon, or a packing case, food becomes the dearest commodity.