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Meaning of pneumatique | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
njuːmaˈtiːk

Definitions

The pneumatic postal system in Paris (abolished 1984), or a letter sent by this system.

historical

Equivalents

Français pneumatique pneumatique

Examples

“Then, full of imaginative and slightly sentimental resolution, he went out and posted the pneumatique.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

pneumatism pneumatist pneumatization pneumatocele pneumatocracy pneumatocyst

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