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domestique

UK/ˌdə(ʊ)mɛˈstiːk/US/dəˌmɛˈstik/
nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: domestiques

A domestique is a rider whose job is to help the team leader. Ride as a domestique.

The work is fetching bottles, shielding from the wind and giving up a wheel. A domestique may be a fine rider who will never be allowed to win anything.

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Definitions of domestique

  1. 1noundomestiqueA rider whose job is to help the team leader.C2

    “The domestique dropped back for bottles eleven times.”

domestique is a rider.

Where it comes from

French domestique, a servant, from Latin domesticus, of the house.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *dem-

  2. Latin

    domesticus — of the house, domestic; familiar; native

  3. French

    domestique — domestic servant, maid

  4. English, today

    domestique

Built from

  • domestique · French — domestic
  • domus · Latin — home, house; place of one's birth or residence, native country

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Cycling

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domestique in the wild

  • In road bicycle racing, a domestique is a rider who works for the benefit of their team and leader, rather than trying to win the race.

    Domestique

  • Hincapie was a key domestique of Lance Armstrong.

    George Hincapie

  • Hincapie was also a domestique for Alberto Contador in 2007 and for Cadel Evans in 2011, when both men won the Tour de France.

    George Hincapie

  • As a domestique, he rode 17 Grand Tours and made 30 appearances across all five Monuments.

    Salvatore Puccio

  • Declerq is known to be a powerful rider who generally acts as a domestique.

    Tim Declercq

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the domus family

domesticdominion

domestique — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others