pedalo

Definitions

A small boat propelled by pedals that directly turn external paddles, used for recreation.

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Examples

“It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love⟳, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.”

“On the other hand: I’m sorry the sculpture hurt⟳ your feelings. But it’s just art. It can’t harm⟳ you. You don’t have⟳ to like⟳ it – not at all – but it’s going to be gone in a month or so, and you can still use⟳ the pedalos while it’s there.”

“When we got back to the shore I suggested we should take⟳ a pédalo.”

“Massilia’s Greek origins disappeared with the Vieux Port, once Lacydon, blown up by the Nazis in the last⟳ war, just as the Nicean barks of yore down the coast in the Baie des Anges beyond the Promenade des Anglais have⟳ long since been replaced by pédalos and windsurfers.”

“It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love⟳, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.”

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