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‖ Tour de France|tur də frɑ̃s|
[Fr., lit. ‘tour of France’.]
The name of an annual cycling stage race on the public roads of France (with some crossing into adjoining countries), now typically over about 4,000 kilometres including mountainous terrain.
1922Times 24 July 7/5 The ‘Tour de France’ cyclist competition..ended to-day. 1926E. Hemingway Sun also Rises iii. xix. 247 Bicycle road-racing was the only sport in the world, he said. Had I ever followed the Tour de France? 1967Guardian 14 July 1/2 Tommy Simpson, the British cyclist, died early this evening after collapsing during a mountain stage of the Tour de France. 1978Listener 6 July 15/1 These days find Paris in a sort of limbo... There is, it is true, the Tour de France to distract us in the weeks ahead. |