pannier

pannier
panniered, adj.
/pan"yeuhr, -ee euhr/, n.
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.
[1250-1300; ME panier < MF < L panarium breadbasket, equiv. to pan(is) bread + -arium -ARY; see -IER2]

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