Noun: dossard
| Singular | dossard |
| Plural | dossards |
Sample Sentences
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[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. [1979, Robin Magowan, Tour de France: The 75th Anniversary Cycle Race, London: S. Paul, →ISBN, page 31:]
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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, Chris Froome, with David Walsh, “2008: The Tour de France”, in The Climb, London: Viking, →ISBN, page 148:]
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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. [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:]
Nouns inflected like dossard
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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 or representing particular classes or sorts). See: French Nouns '
dossard', Latin Nouns '
dorsum'.