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noun
A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
a large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: moving van
History
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”).
