It's French for "prize list" or "list of honors" as in: "Eddy Merckx's list of palmares is truly stunning. Pity his poor son Axel trying to follow in his footsteps."
Bill "ain't go no palmares" Bryant Santa Cruz, CA
on 10/5/02 1:03 PM, Roy H. Drinkwater at roydrink@ptd.net wrote:
> Now that we've fully discussed the "b" word, I think there's
> a cycling term I'm not familiar with. Being of "old-school (or
> various spellings)" myself, I'm reading rec.bicycles.racing with all
> its "smack-talk" (trash-talk) and there's a term bandied around
> called "palmares". What's the meaning and root of this?
>
> Roy "elucidation needed" Drinkwater
> Lititz, "don't think that I didn't have to look that up" PA