pantechnicon

Etymology
From, a 19th-century firm which owned a building with a Greek-style facade of Doric columns in Motcomb Street, Belgrave Square, London, UK, with a picture gallery, a furniture shop, a shop selling carriages, and a warehouse for storing customers’ furniture and other items. The firm used large horse-drawn vans to collect and deliver their customers' property, which came to be known as Pantechnicon vans.

The word was coined by the firm from (from, neuter form of ) + , neuter singular of.

Noun

 * 1)  A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale.
 * 2)  Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van.
 * 3) * 1911,, The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns, London: , 492063506 ; republished Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, 1910s,  225424669 , page 69:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1978,, Livia: Or Buried Alive: A Novel, London: , ISBN 978-0-571-11297-5 ; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, 1992, ISBN 978-0-571-16328-1 , page 426:
 * In fact, as they later found, the auxiliary vehicle was a very large removers' van – the kind known as a pantechnicon.
 * 1)  Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van.
 * 2) * 1911,, The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns, London: , 492063506 ; republished Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, 1910s,  225424669 , page 69:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1978,, Livia: Or Buried Alive: A Novel, London: , ISBN 978-0-571-11297-5 ; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, 1992, ISBN 978-0-571-16328-1 , page 426:
 * In fact, as they later found, the auxiliary vehicle was a very large removers' van – the kind known as a pantechnicon.
 * 1) * 1978,, Livia: Or Buried Alive: A Novel, London: , ISBN 978-0-571-11297-5 ; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, 1992, ISBN 978-0-571-16328-1 , page 426:
 * In fact, as they later found, the auxiliary vehicle was a very large removers' van – the kind known as a pantechnicon.
 * 1) * 1978,, Livia: Or Buried Alive: A Novel, London: , ISBN 978-0-571-11297-5 ; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, 1992, ISBN 978-0-571-16328-1 , page 426:
 * In fact, as they later found, the auxiliary vehicle was a very large removers' van – the kind known as a pantechnicon.