Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A chain-driven bicycle: so first named in France, to distinguish such bicycles from the high-wheel type which preceded them.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Eventually, bicyclette replaced the French word bicycle.
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The diminutive bicyclette appeared a decade later, initially named for its less gargantuan wheels.
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Bien sur c'est la bicyclette! ... et aussi les rideaux et l'arbre ...... (grand soupir, aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh)
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In this sense, the bars are sort of the apple in that famous Magritte painting: "Ceci n'est pas une bicyclette."
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"La vie est comme une bicyclette, il faut avancer pour ne pas perdre l'équilibre."
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Est-ce que c'est l'ombre d'une bicyclette dans le photo des chiens "dorees"?
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Ex: Il a perdu son porte monnaie, on lui a volé sa bicyclette et en plus il a attapé la grippe ...
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It is this which is proving to be the motor (as yet of merely bicyclette size) of the would-be progenitors of the Putschthat the Ovine and Bovine are struggling to mount.
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Bien sur c'est la bicyclette!...et aussi les rideaux et l'arbre......grand soupir, aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
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When I am old and wrinkled -- well into the troisième age* -- I want to race through the shores of Brittany on my bicyclette* -- that most groovy of French bikes with a locomotive engine!
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