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Pannier

noun

Either of a pair of bags or boxes hung over the rear wheel of a vehicle (as a bicycle).

A large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person.

Set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips.

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"Pannier" Quotes from Famous Books

... tools and objects used in the profession represented. We reproduce a few specimens of these essentially original compositions of Gaillot. The green grocer is formed of a melon for the head, of an artichoke and its stem for the forehead and nose, of a pannier for the bust, etc. The hunter is made up of a gun, of a powder horn, and of a hunting horn, etc.; and so on for the other professions. This is an amusing exercise in drawing that we have thought worthy of reproducing. Any one who is skillful ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various

... hour or two. He proposed to us to walk along the shore to a point a couple of miles northward, and there meet the boat. His daughter having agreed to this proposition, he set off with the lightened pannier, and in less than half an hour we saw him standing out from shore. Miss Blunt and I did not begin our walk for a long, long time. We sat and talked beneath the trees. At our feet, a wide cleft in the hills—almost a glen—stretched ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various

Words linked to "Pannier" : hoop, wicker basket, bag