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- noun Plural form of
peloton .
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Examples
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Ultimately, his group wants to provide races the choice of whether to allow the use of earpieces in their pelotons.
Riders demand compromise on radio ban, threaten protest 2011
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This only served to set him off about the large, aggressive groups pelotons, French for pack that sometimes block an entire lane, and run red lights.
Steve Leveen: The Best Protection When Riding Your Bike? A Book! Steve Leveen 2011
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Its presence in the European and domestic pelotons is well established.
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This only served to set him off about the large, aggressive groups pelotons, French for pack that sometimes block an entire lane, and run red lights.
Steve Leveen: The Best Protection When Riding Your Bike? A Book! Steve Leveen 2011
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And lastly, how will they fit into the velotopia when pelotons race across the Pulaski Skyway in the early morning?
On This Inaugural Day: Wheeling and Dealing BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Voient-ils un lieu et une occasion favorables pour attaquer, ils se divisent en plusieurs pelotons, selon la force de leur troupe, et viennent ainsi assailir par diff閞ens c魌閟.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This simplicity of drill, I think, might be assisted if our squadrons were divided into four divisions, zuges, or pelotons.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 Various
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And then the foot chasseurs of the Guard, old soldiers, were told to take the battery; and there was nothing fine about their advance -- no column, no shouting, nobody killed -- just a few scattered lines of tirailleurs and pelotons of support; but in ten minutes the guns were silenced, and the Spanish gunners cut to pieces.
The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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That our system of a long line of battle is worthless in face of an enemy who attacks with his ships formed in groups (_réunis en pelotons_), and told off to engage a small number of ships at different points in our line.
Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888
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You don't have a big pelotons to worry about, but the sharp turns of most off-road courses require more concentration and more intense bike handling skills.
The Seattle Times 2011
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