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In British English, a large van used to move furniture from one house to another — a removal van. It is a rather old, rather British word; many people now just say removal van. It began as a company name. In the 1800s a London firm called Pantechnicon had a grand building where they showed art, sold furniture and carriages, and stored customers’ things. They sent out big horse-drawn vans to collect and deliver that property, and those vans became Pantechnicon vans, then pantechnicons. The firm coined the name from pan- (“all”) plus a Greek word for things of art and skill.
搬家貨車（英式舊稱；台灣就說搬家貨車）
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pantechniconnoun/pænˈtɛknɪkən/
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A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale.
- It is plain, that such writers do not rise to the very idea of a University. They consider it a sort of bazaar, or pantechnicon, in which wares of all kinds are heaped together for sale in stalls independent of each other; and that, to save the purchasers the trouble of running about from shop to shop; or an hotel or lodging house, where all professions and classes are at liberty to congregate, varying, however, according to the season, each of them strange to each, and about its own work or pleasure; […]
- To-day will the mighty cobweb-dome receive its last survey, previous to the contractors for the building handing it over to the painters and decorators. When these have accomplished their task, then will the walls and counters begin to receive their varied and valuable stores of natural and artificial productions. Waggon-loads upon waggon-loads must, we know, be exhausted, and pantechnica emptied, before the vast area, so delicately covered, shall cry “Enough, enough;” […]
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Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van.
- For we do not employ battleships as convoys, nor even as pantechnica conveying landing parties.
- The pantechnicon was running away. It had perceived the wrath to come and was fleeing. Its guardians had evidently left it imperfectly scotched or braked, and it had got loose. […] [T]he onrush of the pantechnicon constituted a clear crisis. Lower down the gradient of Brougham Street was more dangerous, and it was within the possibilities that people inhabiting the depths of the street might find themselves pitched out of bed by the sharp corner of a pantechnicon that was determined to be a pantechnicon.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。