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Definition of charabanc in English: charabancnounˈʃarəbaŋˈʃærəbæŋ British An early form of bus, used typically for pleasure trips. 〈英〉老式公共汽车（尤指游览车） Example sentencesExamples - We set out at a cracking pace and met only charabancs overloaded with defiant voters.
- Only in recent years would the lesser team have more fittingly arrived in a charabanc than a team bus.
- The plot centres around the annual charabanc trip to Whitby by a group of Nottinghamshire 60-year-olds.
- Many English seaside towns seem as if they are stuck in a time warp, in an era when families and charabancs full of factory workers would converge on the shore for fun and frolics.
- ‘Let's get the charabanc out and take the whole town to Tamworth,’ smiles Harvey.
- Every year, since it started, British hacks have had a choice of charabancs and chemin-de-fers to take them to the gruesome National Exhibition Centre just outside Birmingham.
- The Morecambe Silver Band met the special trains at Kendal Station and the children were marched to New Road, where a procession was formed with the younger ones being carried on charabancs and lorries.
- With Jack away on one of his charabanc trips, Andy Kerr had a fit and said we should send some of the ‘boys’ round to kick in a few doors.
- All he had ever seen of Skipton was, as a boy, pressing his nose to the windows of a charabanc as he and his family passed through the town on the way to their annual holidays in Morecambe.
- I plan to take a charabanc of my friends there shortly.
- We used to have a caravan at Knott End and went there every summer in a charabanc.
- This was a spontaneous movement of ordinary people, produced partly by a growing scholarly interest in astronomical associations at the site, and partly by inventions such as the bicycle and the charabanc.
- Many ‘set off’ for a week, usually to Blackpool or Morecambe, travelling on specially laid-on holiday trains or the slower-but cheaper charabanc.
- The team returned to Skipton and travelled by charabanc past cheering crowds to a reception at the town hall.
- Even so, annual leave was spreading more generally through society, as was the use of the car and other motorised forms of transport such as the charabanc.
- You don't take off in a charabanc at 5.30 am on a Sunday lightly.
- They invested £200 in an ex-army charabanc that cost them a further £586 to repair and restore, which was just the start of their fleet of vehicles.
- Such was his befuddlement at that stage that the supporter could not trace his shoes, so rather than miss the bus to the city, he ran downstairs and jumped aboard the charabanc.
- By clever design, the same basic Sheppee body could be used as a charabanc to transport passengers or converted into a goods wagon.
- Gilliam noted, ‘In Britain, it was banned in different towns; what that meant was that people in those towns organised charabancs and went to the neighbouring town where it was showing.’
OriginEarly 19th century: from French char-à-bancs 'carriage with benches' (the original horse-drawn charabancs having rows of bench seats). Definition of charabanc in US English: charabancnounˈSHarəbaNGˈʃærəbæŋ British An early form of bus, used typically for pleasure trips. 〈英〉老式公共汽车（尤指游览车） Example sentencesExamples - Such was his befuddlement at that stage that the supporter could not trace his shoes, so rather than miss the bus to the city, he ran downstairs and jumped aboard the charabanc.
- Gilliam noted, ‘In Britain, it was banned in different towns; what that meant was that people in those towns organised charabancs and went to the neighbouring town where it was showing.’
- By clever design, the same basic Sheppee body could be used as a charabanc to transport passengers or converted into a goods wagon.
- ‘Let's get the charabanc out and take the whole town to Tamworth,’ smiles Harvey.
- The team returned to Skipton and travelled by charabanc past cheering crowds to a reception at the town hall.
- We set out at a cracking pace and met only charabancs overloaded with defiant voters.
- Only in recent years would the lesser team have more fittingly arrived in a charabanc than a team bus.
- With Jack away on one of his charabanc trips, Andy Kerr had a fit and said we should send some of the ‘boys’ round to kick in a few doors.
- The plot centres around the annual charabanc trip to Whitby by a group of Nottinghamshire 60-year-olds.
- This was a spontaneous movement of ordinary people, produced partly by a growing scholarly interest in astronomical associations at the site, and partly by inventions such as the bicycle and the charabanc.
- You don't take off in a charabanc at 5.30 am on a Sunday lightly.
- The Morecambe Silver Band met the special trains at Kendal Station and the children were marched to New Road, where a procession was formed with the younger ones being carried on charabancs and lorries.
- Many ‘set off’ for a week, usually to Blackpool or Morecambe, travelling on specially laid-on holiday trains or the slower-but cheaper charabanc.
- Even so, annual leave was spreading more generally through society, as was the use of the car and other motorised forms of transport such as the charabanc.
- They invested £200 in an ex-army charabanc that cost them a further £586 to repair and restore, which was just the start of their fleet of vehicles.
- We used to have a caravan at Knott End and went there every summer in a charabanc.
- Many English seaside towns seem as if they are stuck in a time warp, in an era when families and charabancs full of factory workers would converge on the shore for fun and frolics.
- I plan to take a charabanc of my friends there shortly.
- Every year, since it started, British hacks have had a choice of charabancs and chemin-de-fers to take them to the gruesome National Exhibition Centre just outside Birmingham.
- All he had ever seen of Skipton was, as a boy, pressing his nose to the windows of a charabanc as he and his family passed through the town on the way to their annual holidays in Morecambe.
OriginEarly 19th century: from French char-à-bancs ‘carriage with benches’ (the original horse-drawn charabancs having rows of bench seats). |