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pan⋅nier

  [pan-yer, -ee-er]
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–noun
1. a basket, esp. a large one, for carrying goods, provisions, etc.
2. a basket for carrying on a person's back, or one of a pair to be slung across the back of a beast of burden.
3. a similar type of bag, usually one of a pair, fastened over a bicycle's rear wheel.
4. (on a dress, skirt, etc.) a puffed arrangement of drapery at the hips.
5. an oval framework formerly used for distending the skirt of a woman's dress at the hips.
Also, panier.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME panier < MF < L pānārium breadbasket, equiv. to pān(is) bread + -ārium -ary; see -ier 2

Related forms:
panniered, adjective
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pan·nier or pan·ier   (pān'yər, -ē-ər)   
n.  
  1. A large wicker basket, especially:
    1. One of a pair of baskets carried on the shoulders of a person or on either side of a pack animal.
    2. A basket carried on a person's back.
    3. A framework of wire, bone, or other material formerly used to expand a woman's skirt at the hips.
    4. A skirt or an overskirt puffed out at the hips.
  2. 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.
    1. A framework of wire, bone, or other material formerly used to expand a woman's skirt at the hips.
    2. A skirt or an overskirt puffed out at the hips.

[Middle English panier, from Old French, from Latin pānārium, breadbasket, from pānis, bread; see pā- in Indo-European roots.]
pan'niered adj.
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Pannier

Pan"nier\, n. [F. panier, fr. L. panarium a bread basket, fr. panis bread. Cf. Pantry.]

1. A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass --Hudibras.

2. (Mil. Antiq.) A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles.

3. A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London.

4. A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand their dresses; a kind of bustle.
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Language Translation for : pannier
Spanish: alforja; bolsa,
German: die Doppelpacktasche (pl.),
Japanese: 荷かご
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pannier 
1290, "large basket for provisions," from O.Fr. panier, from L. panarium "bread basket," from panis "bread" (see food).
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Main Entry: pan·nier
Pronunciation: 'pan-y&r, 'pan-E-&r
Function: noun
: a covered basket holding surgical instruments and medicines for amilitary ambulance
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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