Dossardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Norwegian professional cyclist Odd Christian Eiking wearing dossard number 202 at the Paris–Nice race in March 2021.

Dossards on the backs of some cyclists at the 2013 Tour de France.

Borrowed from French dossard, from dos (“back (of a person)”) (ultimately from Latin dorsum (“back of the body”), further etymology uncertain) + -ard (suffix forming nouns indicating things belonging to または representing particular classes または sorts).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒsɑː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑsɑɹ/
• ハイフネーション: dos‧sard

名詞

dossard (複数形 dossards)

1. (cycle racing) A bib attached to the back of a cyclist's shirt that carries the cyclist's race number.
   • 1979, Robin Magowan, Tour de France: The 75th Anniversary Cycle Race, London: S. Paul, →ISBN, page 31:

     [Bernard] Hinault will also be wearing a 51 dossard, the same number with which Luis Ocana, [Bernard] Thevenet, [Eddy] Merckx, and [Jacques] Anquetil pedalled to victory in their first Tour.

   • 2014, Chris Froome; with David Walsh, “2008: The Tour de France”, in The Climb, London: Viking, →ISBN, page 148:

     We were a platoon of nine carrying the hopes of Team Barloworld through this twenty-one stage counterclockwise yomp around France. Me a mongrel with a Kenyan flag on my dossard and a British passport in my bag.

   • 2014, Richard Williams, “RideLondon–Surrey Classic”, in Ian Cleverley, editor, This Island Race: Rouleur’s Year in the British Isles, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 244:

     Hurricane Bertha—for it was she whose tail was beginning to lash those who had taken the option of a late start and a high dossard number—turned out to be a fickle mistress.

Further reading

• glossary of cycling on Wikipedia.