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‖ équipe|ekip| Also equipe. [Fr., ‘group, team’.] In motor-racing: = stable n.1 3 c. Also in other sports and fig.
[1935Eyston & Lyndon Motor Racing ii. 20 The scuderia Ferrari. This Italian team finds its equivalent in the French équipe, or our own ‘stable’ and the formation of such teams amongst racing men is a development of very recent years.] 1937G. Frankau More of Us xiii. 134 And Venus knows how we had steered, or where, Manned by an équipe less misogynistic. 1956G. Huntington Madame Solario xiii. 143 He led the Russian équipe at the Horse Show last spring. 1961Times 5 May 5/6 The works teams of Cooper, Lotus and B.R.M. will be there in force as well as the private ‘equipes’ of Yeoman Credit, [etc.]. 1979Times 16 Nov. (Obituaries Suppl.) p. iii/7 His circle of academic advisers was every whit as distinguished..as those of the equipe Kennedy. 1983N.Y. Times 23 Apr. 8/1 Tino Buggio, the sous-chef at Maison Blanche, thinks he has put together an équipe that can whip not only the international bankers but even the Soviet Embassy squad [at soccer]. |