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domestique en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌdɒ-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /dəˌmɛˈstik/ (General-American)
• /ˌdə(ʊ)mɛˈstiːk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from French domestique (“domestic servant, maid”), from domestique (“domestic”, adjective), from Latin domesticus (“of the house, domestic; familiar; native”), from domus (“home, house; place of one's birth or residence, native country”). Doublet of domestic.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:cycle racing) A cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team's designated leaders (for example, by riding in front of them to create a slipstream, or to set the pace), even if at the expense of their own individual performance.
   • […] Bram De Groot, a domestique with the Dutch Rabobank team, drops out the back, one arm in the air. The team car responds instantly, swinging out of the line of support vehicles behind the peloton and racing, klaxon sounding, up to De Groot. The window opens and a hand emerges with a bidon (plastic drinks bottle). De Groot places it in his back pocket and the hand emerges with another. This one goes down the back of his shirt, and it is joined by five more. Then off he sprints to deliver them to thirsty team-mates. De Groot is one of the domestiques and this is their lot. They continually drop off, collecting bidons and sprinting back into the peloton with grotesquely bulging shirts. 2006 July 15, “Tour de France 2006: Life is rarely dull among the bottle-carriers and peloton pushers”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2016:
   • In a recent poll [Sean] Yates was voted one of the top-10 domestiques of all time, a crucial cog to any leader's Tour ambitions. […] To many casual observers, the role of domestique is not a particularly rewarding one. Yates begs to differ. 2003 July 24, Matt Majendie, “Domestique Bliss”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2021:

Forms

Relateds

pacemaker

Synonyms

water carrier

Translations (21)

he פּוֹעֶלֶת (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · lv gregari (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · es gregario (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · ko 도메스티크 (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · fr équipier (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · ru домести́к (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · cs domestik (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · nb hjelperytter (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · es gregaria (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · de Domestikin (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · he פּוֹעֵל (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · de Domestik (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · fi apukuski (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · ru гре́гари (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · fr équipière (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · nl knecht (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · ca gregària (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · ja アシスト (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · it gregaria (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · ca gregari (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance) · it gregario (cyclist on a cycle racing team whose role is to assist the team’s designated leaders, even if at the expense of their own individual performance)

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