pompiern.¹

Brit.

/ˈpɒmpɪeɪ/,

/ˈpɒmpɪə/, U.S.

/ˌpɑmpiˈeɪ/,

/ˈpɑmpɪ(ə)r/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pompier.

Etymology: < French pompier (1750 in this sense; earlier in sense ‘maker of pumps’ (1517 in Middle French)) < pompe pump n.¹ + -ier -ier suffix. N.E.D. (1907) gives only the pronunciation (pǫ·mpiəɹ) /ˈpɒmpɪə(r)/.

In France and French-speaking countries: a firefighter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > fireman

firedrake1601

waterman1615

fireman1668

fire quencher1690

Phoenix-man1699

watering-man1791

pompier1815

firefighter1839

sapper-pumper1841

firie1982

Phoenix waterman-fireman1992

1815 Times 1 Dec. 2/2 Yesterday the alarm was given of a fire having broken out..; the Pompiers immediately repaired to the spot.

1838 H. Greville Diary 15 Jan. (1883) 120 Last night the Italian Opera House was burnt to the ground, and poor Severini..lost his life, as did several of the pompiers.

1891 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Press 28 July Forty minutes elapsed before the pompiers were able to obtain water.

1958 L. Durrell Balthazar x. 203 The hall was full of fancy-dress figures of pompiers with hatchets and buckets.

1989 P. Mayle Year in Provence (1990) 182 And when the pompiers come to put out the fire they'll charge you a fortune unless you have a certificate from the chimneysweep.

Compounds

pompier ladder n. originally U.S. (now chiefly historical) a firefighter's scaling ladder in the form of a pole with a hooked end and having crosspieces for rungs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > ladders

scaling ladder1868

pompier ladder1878

turn-table ladder1893

1878 Decatur (Illinois) Weekly Republican 13 June 1/3 The Pompier ladders, by the means of which a man may ascend from one story of a building to another by himself, are something new for our fire department.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 4/3 Their apparatus consisted of a water tower, a gun shot life line, a pompier ladder, and two horses.

1967 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 30 Apr. 13 a/2 Members will..scale the building with Pompier ladders.

2004 Frankston (Melbourne) Standard Leader (Nexis) 5 Apr. 33 His party trick was to lift the now defunct Pompier ladder using the last two rungs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pompieradj.n.²

Brit.

/ˈpɒmpɪeɪ/,

/ˈpɒmpɪə/, U.S.

/ˌpɑmpiˈeɪ/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pompier.

Etymology: < French pompier (1880 as adjective, 1885 or earlier as noun), further origin uncertain and disputed: perhaps a transferred use of pompier pompier n.¹ (compare early derisive remarks comparing the half-naked warriors wearing huge helmets, which were frequently depicted in such paintings, to firemen undressing or firemen going to bed), subsequently influenced by pompe pomp n.¹ and pompeux pompous adj. (so Trésor de la langue française at pompier²), or perhaps < pompe pomp n.¹ + -ier -ier suffix (so Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch at pompa). N.E.D. (1907) gives only the pronunciation (pǫ·mpiəɹ) /ˈpɒmpɪə(r)/. With the noun compare the following slightly earlier unassimilated borrowing from French:1912 Burlington Mag. Feb. 311/1 The exhibition of ‘Les Pompiers’ opens at the Galerie Georges Petit just as we go to press.

Art (depreciative).

A. adj.

Of painting, etc.: characteristic of a pompier (sense B.); vulgarly neoclassical. Of an artist: working in such a style.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [adjective] > other qualities or styles

plangent1666

dry1695

sticky1753

flat1755

spotty1798

touchy1809

definitive1815

edgy1825

painty1827

scratchy1827

unideal1838

tinglish1855

generalist1858

tinny1877

Christmas-cardy1883

tinty1883

surfacy1887

chocolate box1892

chocolate-boxy1894

Christmas card1895

juicy1897

candy box1898

pastose1901

busy1909

pompier1914

posterish1914

painterly1932

X-ray1940

illusional1942

all-over1948

figurative1960

hard-edge1961

1914 Times 11 Apr. 7/6 The classics are declared to be rather ‘pompier’; pleasure is no longer taken seriously.

1924 A. Huxley Let. 9 Aug. (1969) 231 It may be mere folie de grandeur and pompier prejudice on my part.

1961 S. Beckett Happy Days i. 9 Very pompier trompe-l'oeil backcloth to represent unbroken plain and sky receding to meet in far distance.

2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 15/3 The productions tend to resemble the French salon , projecting the pompier style of painters such as Hayez and Delaroche.

B. n.²

A painter or other artist who is regarded as working in an academic, imitative, vulgarly neoclassical style.Used esp. with reference to conventional depictions of classical subjects in late 19th-century France.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > other qualities or styles > painters

machinist1820

attitudinizer1824

nebulist1836

pompier1915

figurative painter1960

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xli. 196 Amid the jeers of the philistines and the hisses of the pompiers, the academicians, and the public.

1932 C. Bell Acct. French Painting iv. 186 Romanticism was Delacroix with an ambiance of bubbles; Classicism, after the departure of David, Ingres and—a little to change the metaphor—a fry of pompiers.

1992 A. Blaugrund in I. B. Jaffe Ital. Presence Amer. Art xvi. 231 He became friends with such pompiers as Jean Léon Gérôme and William Bouguereau.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pompier
释义	pompiern.¹ Brit. /ˈpɒmpɪeɪ/, /ˈpɒmpɪə/, U.S. /ˌpɑmpiˈeɪ/, /ˈpɑmpɪ(ə)r/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pompier. Etymology: < French pompier (1750 in this sense; earlier in sense ‘maker of pumps’ (1517 in Middle French)) < pompe pump n.¹ + -ier -ier suffix. N.E.D. (1907) gives only the pronunciation (pǫ·mpiəɹ) /ˈpɒmpɪə(r)/. In France and French-speaking countries: a firefighter. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > fireman firedrake1601 waterman1615 fireman1668 fire quencher1690 Phoenix-man1699 watering-man1791 pompier1815 firefighter1839 sapper-pumper1841 firie1982 Phoenix waterman-fireman1992 1815 Times 1 Dec. 2/2 Yesterday the alarm was given of a fire having broken out..; the Pompiers immediately repaired to the spot. 1838 H. Greville Diary 15 Jan. (1883) 120 Last night the Italian Opera House was burnt to the ground, and poor Severini..lost his life, as did several of the pompiers. 1891 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Press 28 July Forty minutes elapsed before the pompiers were able to obtain water. 1958 L. Durrell Balthazar x. 203 The hall was full of fancy-dress figures of pompiers with hatchets and buckets. 1989 P. Mayle Year in Provence (1990) 182 And when the pompiers come to put out the fire they'll charge you a fortune unless you have a certificate from the chimneysweep. Compounds pompier ladder n. originally U.S. (now chiefly historical) a firefighter's scaling ladder in the form of a pole with a hooked end and having crosspieces for rungs. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > ladders scaling ladder1868 pompier ladder1878 turn-table ladder1893 1878 Decatur (Illinois) Weekly Republican 13 June 1/3 The Pompier ladders, by the means of which a man may ascend from one story of a building to another by himself, are something new for our fire department. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 4/3 Their apparatus consisted of a water tower, a gun shot life line, a pompier ladder, and two horses. 1967 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 30 Apr. 13 a/2 Members will..scale the building with Pompier ladders. 2004 Frankston (Melbourne) Standard Leader (Nexis) 5 Apr. 33 His party trick was to lift the now defunct Pompier ladder using the last two rungs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pompieradj.n.² Brit. /ˈpɒmpɪeɪ/, /ˈpɒmpɪə/, U.S. /ˌpɑmpiˈeɪ/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pompier. Etymology: < French pompier (1880 as adjective, 1885 or earlier as noun), further origin uncertain and disputed: perhaps a transferred use of pompier pompier n.¹ (compare early derisive remarks comparing the half-naked warriors wearing huge helmets, which were frequently depicted in such paintings, to firemen undressing or firemen going to bed), subsequently influenced by pompe pomp n.¹ and pompeux pompous adj. (so Trésor de la langue française at pompier²), or perhaps < pompe pomp n.¹ + -ier -ier suffix (so Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch at pompa). N.E.D. (1907) gives only the pronunciation (pǫ·mpiəɹ) /ˈpɒmpɪə(r)/. With the noun compare the following slightly earlier unassimilated borrowing from French:1912 Burlington Mag. Feb. 311/1 The exhibition of ‘Les Pompiers’ opens at the Galerie Georges Petit just as we go to press. Art (depreciative). A. adj. Of painting, etc.: characteristic of a pompier (sense B.); vulgarly neoclassical. Of an artist: working in such a style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [adjective] > other qualities or styles plangent1666 dry1695 sticky1753 flat1755 spotty1798 touchy1809 definitive1815 edgy1825 painty1827 scratchy1827 unideal1838 tinglish1855 generalist1858 tinny1877 Christmas-cardy1883 tinty1883 surfacy1887 chocolate box1892 chocolate-boxy1894 Christmas card1895 juicy1897 candy box1898 pastose1901 busy1909 pompier1914 posterish1914 painterly1932 X-ray1940 illusional1942 all-over1948 figurative1960 hard-edge1961 1914 Times 11 Apr. 7/6 The classics are declared to be rather ‘pompier’; pleasure is no longer taken seriously. 1924 A. Huxley Let. 9 Aug. (1969) 231 It may be mere folie de grandeur and pompier prejudice on my part. 1961 S. Beckett Happy Days i. 9 Very pompier trompe-l'oeil backcloth to represent unbroken plain and sky receding to meet in far distance. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 15/3 The productions tend to resemble the French salon , projecting the pompier style of painters such as Hayez and Delaroche. B. n.² A painter or other artist who is regarded as working in an academic, imitative, vulgarly neoclassical style.Used esp. with reference to conventional depictions of classical subjects in late 19th-century France. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > other qualities or styles > painters machinist1820 attitudinizer1824 nebulist1836 pompier1915 figurative painter1960 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xli. 196 Amid the jeers of the philistines and the hisses of the pompiers, the academicians, and the public. 1932 C. Bell Acct. French Painting iv. 186 Romanticism was Delacroix with an ambiance of bubbles; Classicism, after the departure of David, Ingres and—a little to change the metaphor—a fry of pompiers. 1992 A. Blaugrund in I. B. Jaffe Ital. Presence Amer. Art xvi. 231 He became friends with such pompiers as Jean Léon Gérôme and William Bouguereau. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1815adj.n.²1914
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pompiern.1

Compounds

pompieradj.n.2

pompiern.¹

pompieradj.n.²