pédalo

See also: pedalo, pedalò, and Pedalo

English

Noun

pédalo (plural pédalos)

1. Alternative form of pedalo.
   • 1950, Winston Graham, Night without Stars, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., book 2, page 206:

     When we got back to the shore I suggested we should take a pédalo.

   • 1979 August 25, Alistair Forbes, “Books: Prince of the Canebière”, in The Spectator, volume 243, number 7885, London, →ISSN, page 17, column 2:

     Massilia’s Greek origins disappeared with the Vieux Port, once Lacydon, blown up by the Nazis in the last war, just as the Nicean barks of yore down the coast in the Baie des Anges beyond the Promenade des Anglais have long since been replaced by pédalos and windsurfers.

   • 2001, Stephen Brown, “Replacing Marketing: Reading Retroscapes”, in Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.; New Delhi: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, part III (Fixing the Mix), page 139:

     It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.

French

Alternative forms

• pédal’eau

Etymology

From pédale (“pedal”) +‎ -o, a brand name (1936).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.da.lo/

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• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: pé‧da‧lo

Noun

pédalo m (plural pédalos)

1. (nautical) pedalo

   Synonym: bateau à pédales

Descendants

• → English: pedalo
• → Italian: pedalò
• → Switzerland German: Pedalo

Further reading

• “pédalo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.