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pannier

[ UK /pˈænɪɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈpæniɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. either of a pair of bags or boxes hung over the rear wheel of a vehicle (as a bicycle)
  2. a large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person
  3. set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips

How To Use pannier In A Sentence

  • He was also wheeling a black cycle with panniers.
  • The expedient of hiding a child in a pannier, which is afterwards filled up with eggs and chickens, and carried through a camp of hungry rebels, does not somehow appeal to the mind as quite the safest that could have been devised. Maria Edgeworth
  • In keeping with her subject she abandoned the ballerina's standard costume of voluminous skirts and panniers and appeared instead with her hair loose, wearing nothing but sandals and a simple muslin tunic.
  • The pannier training was followed by the little girls being placed on a pilch, and conducted about by a mounted groom with a leading-rein. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
  • The large panniers at the back held the main sail and the spinnaker.
  • I stopped then, snacked on a couple of small oranges, tucked the peel in the little rubbish bag I keep on the back pannier, and sauntered over to look out over the country that'll be my next place to explore.
  • I ride an old boneshaker-style bicycle, the type with an uncomfortable saddle and double panniers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Elk Scouts had under their top-packs a "sawbuck" pack-saddle, which is a pair of wooden X's; and to the horns of the X's they hung on each side a canvas case or pannier, in which were stowed cooking utensils, etc. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies
  • It turns out they weren't in the bike pannier at all, but in a carrier bag in my spare room, where I found six months after supposedly losing them.
  • I did not notice the picturesque Copts and the Armenians, did not register the toasted-sesame smell of the round bread loaves that passed beneath our noses on the panniers of a donkey, did not even hear the strange, flat clang of bells or the “bakshish” cries of the beggars or the polyglot of tongues. O Jerusalem
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