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‖ pneumatique
(njuːməˈtiːk, ‖ pnømatik)
[Fr.; see pneumatic a.]
The pneumatic dispatch system in Paris (see pneumatic a. 1 a); a letter or message sent by this system.
1924E. Hemingway Let. 9 Aug. in A. Mizener Saddest Story (1971) xxv. 342 Ford..had stayed up all night writing pneumatiques. 1938F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. July (1964) 35 A pneumatique might reach Nanny at 23 rue Pascal-Lecointre. 1951R. Senhouse tr. Colette's Chéri 76 Pneumatiques of four or five lines from sponging friends. 1964Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 28 June 33/4 All the letters were sent by pneumatique—the giant system of suction pipes which links all the post offices in the Paris area and allows express letters to reach their destination in the city within 60 minutes. 1973L. Snelling Heresy iii. ix. 191 I'll get off a pneumatique to his office. |