Meanings
nounpneumatique (plural pneumatiques)
plural pneumatiques
- historicalThe pneumatic postal system in Paris (abolished 1984), or a letter sent by this system.
Then, full of imaginative and slightly sentimental resolution, he went out and posted the pneumatique.
1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 711 more example
Thus were great love-letters born – they would be sent by pneumatique and a helmeted motor cyclist would deliver them, like Mercury himself, within the hour.
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 412
Origin
- Frenchpneumatique
- Englishpneumatique
From French pneumatique.
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