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‖ rond de cuir|rɔ̃ də kɥir|
[Fr., lit. ‘circle of leather’.]
A round leather cushion, commonly used on office chairs in France; hence transf., a bureaucrat.
[1893G. Courteline (title) Messieurs les Ronds-de-Cuir.] 1915W. J. Locke Jaffery viii. 101 Do you think a leather seat for that hard wooden chair—what the French call a rond-de-cuir—would very greatly impair the poor fellow's imagination? 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 28 May 368/3 Into the next twelve years he crowded all his life's work, his volumes of stories and novels..his good-bye to a rond de cuir. 1963I. Fleming On H.M. Secret Service xxiv. 259, I am just a pilot. I am not a ‘rond de cuir’, a chairborne flyer. 1969Punch 5 Mar. 363/2 The island in this Octave is Barra, where he is in charge of the Home Guard and conducts a running fight on its behalf with the ronds de cuir of Whitehall. 1975Listener 4 Sept. 314/4 How many ronds-de-cuir in peripheral mairies..must have lived through Robespierre! |