pantechnicon

IPA: pɑntˈɛknɪkɑn

(chiefly Britain) A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale.
(chiefly Britain) Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van.

Examples of "pantechnicon" in Sentences

A pantechnicon concealed the manoeuvre from the traffic that followed.
One G.S. waggon, laden till it resembled a pantechnicon, was soon in dire straits.
a kind of pantechnicon of slovenly knowledge; a knower of thousands of things that aren't so.
On landing in the street he wasted no time and nipped very neatly into the open back of the pantechnicon.
But at the nearby Good Hope Centre, a pantechnicon-load of ballot boxes from the populous Mitchell's Plain district was offloaded only shortly after
'An enormous removal van,' she had said, 'a real pantechnicon, and polluting what's left of our country air with clouds of the filthiest black diesel fumes.
The whole place was so terribly raw and flat and accidental, as if great pieces of furniture had tumbled out of a pantechnicon and lay discarded by the road.
All as if it had tumbled haphazard off the pantechnicon of civilisation as it dragged round the edges of this wild land, and there lay, busy but not rooted in.
Ethel and St. Nivel, having an unlimited command of money, ordered pretty nearly everything they were advised to take, with the result that we required a small pantechnicon van to take our combined luggage.
The D. C.4 was heavy, like driving a fully loaded pantechnicon after passing a test on empty minis, and the sheer muscle power needed to hold it straight on the ground and get it into the air was in the circumstances exhausting.