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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 680 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PANNIER (Fr. panier, See also:Lat. panarium, a See also:basket for carrying See also:bread, panis)  , a See also:basket for carryingebread or other provisions; more especially a broad, fiat basket, generally slung in pairs across a See also:mule, See also:pony or See also:ass for transport . The See also:term has also been applied to an overskirt in a woman's See also:dress attached to the back of the bodice and draped so as to give a " bunchy " See also:appearance . At various times in the See also:history of See also:costume this appearance has been produced by a framework of padded See also:whalebone, See also:steel, &c., used to support the dress, such frameworks being known as " panniers." At the Inns of See also:Court, See also:London, there was formerly an See also:official known as a " See also:pannier See also:man," whose duties were concerned with procuring provisions at See also:market, blowing the See also:horn before meals, &c . The See also:office has been in many of the inns See also:long obsolete, and was formally abolished at the Inner See also:Temple in 1900 . At the Inner Temple the robed waiters in See also:hall have been called " panniers," and apparently were in some way connected with the officer above mentioned, but the proper duties of the two were in no way identical .

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