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Cycling teams are built to focus on and nurture one star whom the other riders, known by the French word domestiques, support by blocking the wind, for instance, and ferrying water.
NYT > Home Page By BRUCE WEBER 2010
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Cycling teams are built to focus on and nurture one star whom the other riders, known by the French word domestiques, support by blocking the wind, for instance, and ferrying water.
International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions 2010
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Cycling teams are built to focus on and nurture one star whom the other riders, known by the French word domestiques, support by blocking the wind, for instance, and ferrying water.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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The slower riders, for example, are called domestiques, or servants, because they do what can be considered the grunt work.
LANCE ARMSTRONG BILL GUTMAN 2003
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The slower riders, for example, are called domestiques, or servants, because they do what can be considered the grunt work.
LANCE ARMSTRONG BILL GUTMAN 2003
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Teams are comprised of "domestiques" (French for servants).
Penny C. Sansevieri: Biking and Book Marketing (They Have More in Common Than You Think) 2010
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Teams are comprised of "domestiques" (French for servants).
Penny C. Sansevieri: Biking and Book Marketing (They Have More in Common Than You Think) 2010
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Français · Koweït: Elections, cliniques douteuses et domestiques maltraitées
Global Voices in English » Kuwait: Election Drama, Filthy Clinics and Domestic Abuse 2009
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Maybe he'll have to go it alone, as the key will be catching Contador's domestiques off guard.
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Although, of course, you'd need a couple of domestiques to carry any awkward items.
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