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My father had a Vespa with one of those where my mother used to sit, before I was born. I haven't seen many of those on the wild. The image that's still fresh

• ehnto 5y ago
  > panniers It might be common knowledge, but I was elated to find out that the word pannier did actually arise out of the word for bread. > c. 1300, paniere, "large basket for provisions," from Old French panier, paniere "basket," from Latin panarium "bread-basket," noun use of a nerter adjective meaning "pertaining to bread," from panis "bread," from PIE root *pa- "to feed." Transferred sense of "frame of whalebone, etc., used to distend the skirt of a woman's dress at the hips" is by 1869.
  • narag 5y ago
    I found it in a dictionary as a "sera" translation. In Spain I doubt many people even knows the word. In my hometown it was "serón" (a big sera). Those words are quickly becoming relics. It was funny to see the thing, that was originally used with mules, adapted to motorbikes.