draisienne
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French draisienne. Named after Karl Drais.
Noun
[edit]draisienne (plural draisiennes)
- (historical, cycling) dandy-horse, hobby horse
- 1989, William Weaver, transl., Foucault's Pendulum, Random House, translation of Il pendolo di Foucault by Umberto Eco, page 10:
- I looked to the right, where velocipedes with huge art-nouveau wheels and draisiennes with their flat, scooterlike bars evoked gentlemen in stovepipe hats, knights of progress pedaling through the Bois de Boulogne.
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Drais + -ienne, named after Baron Karl Drais (1785–1851).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]draisienne f (plural draisiennes)
- (historical) hobby horse, dandy horse (early bicycle)
- balance bike
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “draisienne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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