Tumbril: A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
1919: “Once Steve came in suddenly, his face pale above the dripping poncho, his snapping, and said in a low voice, ‘Now I know what the tumbrils were like in the Terror, that’s what they are, tumbrils.”
(Speaking of Red Cross ambulances in WWI.)
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