PANNIER

also panier noun see: food Date: 13th century a large container: as, a basket often carried on the back of an animal or the shoulders of a person, one of a pair of packs or baskets hung over the rear wheel of a vehicle (as a bicycle), 2. one of a pair of hoops formerly used to expand women's skirts at the sides, an overskirt draped at the sides of a skirt for an effect of fullness