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commissaire
/ ˌkɒmɪˈsɛə /
noun
- (in professional cycle racing) a referee who travels in an open-topped car with the riders to witness any infringement of the rules
Word History and Origins
Origin of commissaire1
Example Sentences
With Denis Ménochet, appealing as the local commissaire, and, eventually, Alfre Woodard.
“Il est assez sophistiqué,” analyse Guillaume Piens, commissaire général d’une foire d’art contemporain au printemps, à Paris au Grand Palais .
What begins as a lighthearted office outing to Brocéliande Forest in Brittany, France, suddenly becomes one of Commissaire Georges Dupin’s most violent murder cases in “The King Arthur Case,” the seventh book in Bannalec’s best-selling Brittany Mystery series.
These changes are part of a project funded by the EU and led by a senior police officer, Commissaire Binetou Guisse, whose job it is to monitor gender-related violence around the country.
Then he came to grief behind the commissaire's car before the Abu Dhabi Tour had even officially begun.
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