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Date: 1200-1300
Language: Old French
Origin: panier, from Latin panarium, from panis 'bread'

pannier

 noun
     
Related topics: Transport
pan‧ni‧er [countable]
1TT one of a pair of baskets or bags that you carry one on each side of an animal or a bicycle [↪ saddlebag]
2TT a basket in which someone carries a load on their back
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