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 Translation for 'covered wagon' from English to French
NOUN   a covered wagon | covered wagons
SYNO Conestoga | Conestoga wagon | covered wagon | ...
transp.
chariot {m} bâché
covered wagon
3 Words
trainstransp.
wagon {m} couvert
covered goods wagon [Br.]
Partial Matches
transp.
fourgon {m} pourvoyeur
supplies wagon
mil.
caisson {m} de munition
ammunition wagon
trains
camion-grue {m}
crane wagon
mines
benne {f}
(colliery) wagon
théâtretransp.
roulotte {f} de cirque
circus wagon
meub.
chariot {m} à desserte
service wagon [Am.]
auto
break {m}
station wagon [Am.]
trainstransp.
wagon {m} de marchandises
goods wagon [Br.]
trains
wagon {m} postal
mail wagon [Br.]
trainstransp.
wagon {m} plat
flat wagon [Br.]
alim.trainstransp.
wagon {m} réfrigérant
refrigeration wagon [Br.]
trains
fourgon {m}
goods wagon [Br.]
cuis.mil.transp.
fourgon {m} cuisine
kitchen wagon [field kitchen]
couvert {adj} {past-p}covered
être au régime sec [fam.]to be on the wagon [coll.]
entièrement couvert {adj}fully covered
couvert decovered with
entièrement couvert {adj}completely covered
sport
préau {m}
covered playground
hort.
gazonné {adj} {past-p}
lawn-covered
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Usage Examples English
  • Dark tents to be used outdoors consisted of a small tent that was tied around the photographer's waist. Otherwise a wheelbarrow or a horse and covered wagon were used.
  • Laura's Uncle Tom (Ma's brother) visits the family and tells of his failed venture with a covered-wagon brigade seeking gold in the Black Hills.
  • The story of how Charles Ingalls and his wife Caroline arrived in De Smet in 1879 by covered wagon from Walnut Grove, Minnesota, is told by a cast of thirty in an open-air theater near the old Ingalls homestead and the Surveyors' House.
  • About 1876, attracted by the reports of the Black Hills stampede, the Reeds went overland with a covered wagon.
  • Rolla is named after Rollie Ray Williamson, who came to Western Kansas in 1907 in a covered wagon with his mother and uncle to meet his father, who had homesteaded in the area.

  • In 1917, the Hartington Council was formed, closing in 1918. In 1915, the Omaha Council (#326) was formed, changing its name to the Covered Wagon Council (#326) in 1930.
  • Pecos Bill was traveling in a covered wagon as an infant when he fell out unnoticed by the rest of his family near the Pecos River (thus his nickname).
  • The short featured Minnie and her mate as pioneer settlers heading to the American Old West driving a covered wagon in a wagon train.
  • In 1939, Windsor was chosen from a group of 81 contestants to be queen of Covered Wagon Days in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • On March 1, 2006, the Nebraska State Quarter was released. The quarter features a covered wagon headed west past Chimney Rock, commemorating Nebraska's role in westward migration.

  • It included seagulls, pioneers, a covered wagon, and the sun rising over the Wasatch Mountains in the middle of a white background.
  • A chuckwagon is a type of field kitchen covered wagon historically used for the storage and transportation of food and cooking equipment on the prairies of the United States and Canada.
  • The school "mascot" is a replica of a 19th-century covered wagon, called the "Sooner Schooner."
  • In 1853 he was brought by his parents in an oxen-drawn covered wagon at the age of about 8 on a two-year trek across the plains via Salt Lake City to a Mormon settlement in San Bernardino, California.
  • it retained RoBee's building design and covered wagon logo design.

  • Pioneers headed west "en masse" beginning in the 1830s, first by covered wagon, then by the growing numbers of steamboats that entered service on the river.
  • The earliest records of a van as a vehicle in English are in the mid-19th century meaning a covered wagon for transporting goods; the earliest reported record of such was in 1829.
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