pantechnicon
nounEtymology
From Pantechnicon, a 19th-century firm which owned a building with a Greek-style facade of Doric columns in Motcomb Street, Belgrave Square, London, UK, with a picture gallery, a furniture shop, a shop selling carriages, and a warehouse for storing customers’ furniture and other items. The firm used large horse-drawn vans to collect and deliver their customers' property, which came to be known as Pantechnicon vans. The word was coined by the firm from pan- (“all”) (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân), neuter form of πᾶς (pâs, “all, every”)) + τεχνικόν (tekhnikón), neuter singular of τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “technical”).
- derived from πᾶν
Definitions
A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic)…
A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale.
Originally pantechnicon van
Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van.
- For we do not employ battleships as convoys, nor even as pantechnica conveying landing parties.
The neighborhood
- synonymmoving truck
- synonymmoving van
- synonymremoval van
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for pantechnicon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA