Word Origin Summary

Char-à-bancs is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• xarabank

  Maltese · derived from

• charabanc

  Danish · borrowed from

• char à bancs

  Norman · borrowed from

• charabanc

  English · borrowed from

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