pannier

noun

A large wicker basket, especially.

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One of a pair of baskets carried on the shoulders of a person or on either side of a pack animal.

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A basket carried on a person’s back.

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A basket or pack, usually one of a pair, that fastens to the rack of a bicycle and hangs over the side of one of the wheels.

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A framework of wire, bone, or other material formerly used to expand a woman’s skirt at the hips.

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A skirt or an overskirt puffed out at the hips.

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In the inns of court, formerly, a servant who laid the cloths, set the salt-cellars, cut bread, waited on the gentlemen in term-time, blew the horn as a summons to dinner, and rang the bell; now, one of the domestics who wait in the hall of the inns at the time of dinner. Also pannier-man.

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A bread-basket; a basket for provisions; hence, any wicker basket.

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One of a pair of baskets slung across the back of a beast of burden to contain a load.