English Explanatory Dictionary

Cote d'Azur

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Alternative form of Côte d'Azur (“French Riviera”).
noun
  1. The warning track at the bottom of a velodrome, a non-racing surface representing the base of the banked oval course.

Word forms

Cote d'Azur the Cote d'Azur

Etymology

From French Côte d'Azur, from côte (“coast”)+azur (“azure”) * (cycling): From being a light blue coloured margin; light blue being akin to azure and a margin being akin to a coast; also seeming like a band of water, reminiscent of the waters of the French Riviera.

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