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Etymology
From F. char-à-bancs, a carriage with benches

Noun
en-noun

1. A horse-drawn, and then later, motorized omnibus with open sides, and often, no roof.

#:The cumbersome though finely painted charabanc of the late James style is pulled swaying along by a frisky pony of a plot farcical and romantic. � John Updike, "Late Works", The New Yorker, Aug 7 & 14, 2006, p.70.

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World Wide Words

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