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‖ pompier
(‖ pɔ̃pje, ˈpɒmpɪə(r))
[F. pompier (pɔ̃pje), f. pompe pump n.: see -ier.]
1. The French name for a fireman. Hence pompier ladder, a firemen's scaling ladder, having a central pole and crossbars for rungs, and a hook at the top to attach it to a building, etc.
[1838H. Greville Diary (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.] 1871E. G. E. Ward Jrnl. 24 May in D. P. Carew Many Years, Many Girls (1967) i. 51 All the ‘pompiers’ from St. Germain are gone to Paris, but the fire is enormous. 1893Westm. Gaz. 6 June 4/3 Their apparatus consisted of a water tower, a gun shot life line, a pompier ladder, and two horses. 1905Prot. Alliance Mag. Aug. 89/1 Rescue was effected..by means of Pompier ladders. 1958L. Durrell Balthazar x. 203 The hall was full of fancy-dress figures of pompiers with hatchets and buckets.
2. transf. An artist who paints in an academic, imitative, vulgarly neo-classical style. Also attrib.
1924A. Huxley Let. 9 Aug. (1969) 231 It may be mere folie de grandeur and pompier prejudice on my part. 1950Wyndham Lewis Let. 22 Mar. (1963) 520 The greatest news of all is that you have taken to the brush and palette! Are you a Douanier, or a pompier? 1974Times 23 Nov. 14/1 The names of the so-called Pompier artists—late nineteenth-century French academic painters—are on every lip... The term ‘Pompier’..is thought to derive from the helmets worn by the Greek gods and heroes depicted in the canvases of the late Classical painters and their close similarity to that of the Paris firemen, or pompiers. Ibid. 14/4 The Pompiers are exotic and flamboyant. 1977Times 30 Mar. 12/4 The art of the Pompiers as they have been contemptuously called... The exhibition of French Nineteenth-century Paintings at the Alpine Club Gallery..is..welcome. |