"char-à-banc" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: char-à-bancs [plural], chars-à-bancs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|char-à-bancs|chars-à-bancs}} char-à-banc (plural char-à-bancs or chars-à-bancs)
  1. Obsolete form of charabanc. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: charabanc
    Sense id: en-char-à-banc-en-noun-LvDOnI4I Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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          "text": "To-day, when fish no longer inhabited its tanks, it was a by-word; it was a failure in every other direction; it was despised by its owners. So abject was its condition that recently efforts had actually been made by a hardened and determined ichthyophobe named Clayton to convert it into a garage for char-à-bancs.",
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