yellow jersey

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English

WOTD – 31 July 2022

Etymology

The Slovenian professional cyclist Tadej Pogačar wearing the yellow jersey (sense 1) in Paris during the final stage of the 2020 Tour de France. Pogačar was the winner of the race.

Calque of French maillot jaune: maillot (“jersey, shirt; vest”) + jaune (“yellow”, adjective).[1]

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Noun

yellow jersey (plural yellow jerseys) (cycle racing)

  1. Especially in the Tour de France: the yellow shirt worn by the leader of a stage of a cycling race, which is then awarded to the cyclist who wins the race with the fastest overall time.
    • 2022 July 25, Jeremy Whittle, “Marianne Vos takes yellow jersey on second stage of Tour de France Femmes”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 July 2022:
      The evergreen Marianne Vos, a multiple world champion, crowned her illustrious career by taking her first yellow jersey in the Tour de France Femmes after emphatically winning stage two of the week-long race in Provins.
  2. (by extension) A cyclist who wears such a jersey or shirt; hence, the leader of a stage of a cycling race, or the winner of a cycling race.
    • 2012 July 15, Richard Williams, “Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 March 2022:
      The timing of the incident raised the question, almost certainly destined to remain unanswered, of whether, having allowed the escapers to pass by unhindered, the culprit had waited specifically for the yellow jersey group before sowing his mischief.

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  1. ^ “yellow jersey, n.” under “yellow, adj. and n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2022; “yellow jersey, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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