See peloton in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The summit of the climb came 38km from the end of stage 14, which began in Limoux and ended in Foix in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and the incident occurred as the peloton emerged into the light and passed under the banner at the top, a quarter of an hour behind a five-man breakaway.",
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"A group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders; the pack."
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[
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"qualifier": "cycle racing",
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"(cycle racing) A group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders; the pack."
]
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"English terms with historical senses",
"English terms with quotations",
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{
"ref": "1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume IV (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 135:",
"text": "And so here, I suppose you intend to make a stand against your followers, Ranald—voto a Dios, as the Spaniard says—a very pretty position—as pretty a position for a small peloton of men as I have seen in my service—no enemy can come towards it by the road without being at the mercy of cannon and musket.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1840 November, R[ichard] W[illiam] H[oward] Howard Vyse, “Some Account of the Composition and Force of the Egyptian Army”, in The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, part III, number 144, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 307:",
"text": "A regiment of cavalry consists of six squadrons, each squadron of four pelotons, each peloton of two companies, each company of two escouardes, and each escouarde of two men.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1864, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “We Enter Whydah in State”, in A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 44:",
"text": "Then the chief of each peloton came forward, snapped fingers with us as we sat on our chairs under the tree, our guards ranged on the right, a mob of gazers—women scratching and boys pulling—on the left, and an open space in front.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Margers Vestermanis, “Local Headquarters Liepaja: Two Months of German Occupation in the Summer of 1941”, in Hannes Heer, Klaus Naumann, editors, War of Extermination: The German Military in World War II, 1941–1944 (Studies on War and Genocide; 3), New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 232:",
"text": "In Bauske, on 2 July, the local commandant had twenty hostages publicly shot at the Memel bridge by a peloton supplied by the local headquarters, allegedly in \"reprisal\" for the German soldiers who had fallen in the battles for the town.",
"type": "quote"
}
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],
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[
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{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"word": "pelotoi"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"word": "tropel"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "escamot"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"word": "大部隊"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàbùduì",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"word": "大部队"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "peloton"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "peloton"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"word": "pääjoukko"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"word": "peloton"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "peloton"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Peloton"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Hauptfeld"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Pulk"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "דבוקה"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"word": "boly"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"word": "pelotono"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "plotone"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gruppo"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "pelleoton",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"word": "펠러톤"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"word": "pelotons"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "peleton"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pelotão"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "pluton"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pelotón",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пелото́н"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pelotón"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "klunga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "tätklunga"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pelotón",
"sense": "group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders",
"word": "пелото́н"
}
],
"word": "peloton"
}
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