draisienne

Borrowed from French draisienne. Named after Karl Drais.

draisienne (plural draisiennes)

1. dandy-horse, hobby horse
   • 1989, Umberto Eco, Fouceault's Pendulum, tr. by William Weaver, Random House, page 10.

     I looked to the right, where velocipedes with huge art-nouveau wheels and draisiennes with their flat, scooterlike bars evoked gentlemen in stovepipe hats, knights of progress pedaling through the Bois de Boulogne.

• draisine

• Indianeers, arsinidene, nereidians

From Drais +‎ -ienne. Named after Karl Drais.

draisienne f (plural draisiennes)

1. hobby horse, dandy horse (early bicycle)

• draisine

• “draisienne” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).