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Tour-de-France
[ toor-duh-frans, -frahns; French toor-duh-frahns ]
noun
- a bicycle touring race, held over a period of 21 days: it covers about 2,500 miles (4,000 km) in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Tour-de-France1
< French: tour of France
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Example Sentences
After years of being overshadowed by Armstrong, cyclist Greg LeMond is the only American to have fairly won the Tour de France.
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But it falls instead to Prince William, Kate, and Prince Harry to wave off the 22 teams competing in this year's Tour de France.
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But Armstrong continued to ride, competing in two more Tour de France races even after retiring in 2005.
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The long-term chart of the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite Index looks like the profile of an Alps stage of the Tour de France.
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After he was stripped of his Tour de France titles, Armstrong was issued a pretty unequivocal punishment.
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