starting-gate

starting-gate

starting-gate [ startiŋgɛt ] n. m.
• 1900; mot angl. « barrière pour partir »
♦ Anglic. turf Barrière faite de rubans élastiques tendus, de portes, devant laquelle s'alignent les chevaux, et qui donne le signal du départ en se relevant ou en s'ouvrant. Des starting-gates.

● starting-gate, starting-gates nom féminin (anglais starting-gate, de to start, partir, et gate, porte) Dispositif, placé sur la piste, dont les portes s'ouvrent simultanément et automatiquement pour le départ d'une course de chevaux.

⇒STARTING-GATE, subst. masc. ou fém.
HIPP. Barrière de cordes élastiques devant laquelle s'alignent les chevaux et que l'on relève au départ (d'apr. PETIOT 1982). Il sentait les billets palpiter dans son portefeuille comme des pur-sang derrière le starting-gate (MONTHERL., Pitié femmes, 1936, p. 1165). Pendant que les chevaux tournent au paddock (...), de la pelouse au pesage, on retient son souffle au moment où se lève la starting-gate (Vogue, juin 1967, p. 24, col. 2).
Prononc. et Orth.:[], [-get]. Plur. des starting-gates. Prop. CATACH-GOLF. Orth. Lexicogr. 1971, p. 305: un startinggate, plur. des startinggates. Étymol. et Hist. 1900 (Le Sport universel illustré, 14 avr., 234b ds HÖFLER Anglic.). Empr. à l'angl. starting-gate comp. de gate « porte, barrière, grille » issu du vieil angl., et de starting, subst. verbal de to start (v. starter).

starting-gate [staʀtiŋgɛt; staʀtiŋget] n. m.
ÉTYM. 1900, in Höfler; mot angl., proprt « barrière pour partir ».
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♦ Anglic. (Turf). Barrière faite de rubans élastiques tendus, qu'on relève au départ d'une course devant les chevaux. || Des starting-gates. || Les chevaux s'alignent derrière le starting-gate.
0 (…) il sentait les billets palpiter dans son portefeuille comme des pur-sang derrière le starting-gate.
Montherlant, Pitié pour les femmes, p. 172.

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