pédalo

plural pédalos

1. alternativeAlternative form of pedalo.

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

   1950, Winston Graham, Night without Stars, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., book 2, page 206

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   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just as the Nicean barks of yore down the coast in the Baie des Anges beyond the Promenade des Anglais have long since been replaced by pédalos and windsurfers.

   1979 August 25, Alistair Forbes, “Books: Prince of the Canebière”, in The Spectator, volume 243, number 7885, London, →ISSN, page 17, column 2

   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.

   2001, Stephen Brown, “Replacing Marketing: Reading Retroscapes”, in Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.; New Delhi: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, part III (Fixing the Mix), page 139