draisienne

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French draisienne. Named after Karl Drais.

Noun

draisienne (plural draisiennes)

1. dandy-horse, hobby horse
   • 1989, Umberto Eco, Fouceault's Pendulum, tr. by William Weaver, Random House, page 10.

     I looked to the right, where velocipedes with huge art-nouveau wheels and draisiennes with their flat, scooterlike bars evoked gentlemen in stovepipe hats, knights of progress pedaling through the Bois de Boulogne.

Related terms

• draisine

Anagrams

• Indianeers, arsinidene, nereidians

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French

Etymology

From Drais +‎ -ienne. Named after Karl Drais.

Noun

draisienne f (plural draisiennes)

1. hobby horse, dandy horse (early bicycle)

Related terms

• draisine

Further reading

• “draisienne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.