icecream van

plural icecream vans

1. alternativeAlternative form of ice cream van.

   Decorations began to appear in house windows as well as in shops — even the icecream vans were playing carols as they drove along — and the magazines were full of suggestions for traditional feasts.

   2013, Sheila Holroyd, A Whole New World, Leicester: Linford, published 2015, →ISBN, page 245

   2 more examples

   She looked out of the window for inspiration, saw an icecream van standing beside the back gate of the hospital. ‘Goodness, look! An icecream van! When we leave, we’ll stop and buy one, shall we?[…]’

   1977, Charlotte Lamb [pseudonym; Sheila Holland], Kingfisher Morning, Harlequin Books, published 1985, →ISBN, page 98

   Tomorrow a party of Arnie’s tourists would turn up in a glass-bottomed boat, tomorrow we’d wake up and see an icecream van driving along the sand, tomorrow a helicopter would arrive, full of sexy models in slinky bikinis, for a tropical photoshoot.

   2001, Ann Halam [pseudonym; Gwyneth Jones], Dr Franklin’s Island, Dolphin, →ISBN, page 32