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Meaning of Pillion | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈpɪljən

Definitions

  1. A pad behind the saddle of a horse for a second rider.
  2. A similar second saddle on a motorcycle for a passenger.
  3. The person riding in the pillion.
  4. The cushion of a saddle.

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Examples

“It was all the greater triumph to Miss Nancy Lammeter's beauty that she looked thoroughly bewitching in that costume, as, seated on the pillion behind her tall, erect father, she held one arm round him, and looked down, with open-eyed anxiety, at the treacherous snow-covered pools and puddles, which sent up formidable splashings of mud under the stamp of Dobbin's foot.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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