pantechnicon

Origin: From Pantechnicon, 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 all (from , neuter form of all, every) + τεχνικόν, neuter singular of technical. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).