rond de cuirn.

Brit.

/rɒ̃ də ˈkwɪə/, U.S.

/ˌrɑn də ˈkwɪ(ə)r/

Inflections: Plural ronds de cuir, (rare) ronds de cuirs, rond de cuirs.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rond de cuir.

Etymology: < French rond de cuir round leather cushion (1867), (depreciatively) bureaucrat (1883) < rond round object (see round n.¹) + de de prep. + cuir leather (see cuirass n.).The depreciative use of the word in sense 1 was perhaps popularized by the title of Messieurs les Ronds-de-cuir (1893), a novel by the French writer Georges Courteline. In plural form ronds de cuir after the French plural form.

1. In France: a bureaucrat; a person who works at a desk, an office worker; (also) bureaucrats or office workers collectively. Also attributive. depreciative.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun] > bureaucrat or bureaucratist

bureaucrat1832

paper-chaser1884

paper-pusher1942

rond de cuir1963

1886 Imperial & Asiatic Q. Rev. 1 421 The Lungchou line is to be undertaken, but with the wretched French Tariff and general rond-de-cuir system of Tonquin, no one need be for an instant afraid of the French competition.

1897 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 126 Undoubtedly there are too many French officials, or, as they call them, ronds-de-cuir.

1898 19th Cent. Feb. 231 It is the army of the ronds-de-cuir, a stalwart body which has always formed an insurmountable obstacle to reforms, which even revolutions have not vanquished, and before which every government has had to bow down.

1963 I. Fleming On Her Majesty's Secret Service xxiv. 259 I am just a pilot. I am not a ‘rond de cuir’, a chairborne flyer.

1975 Listener 4 Sept. 314/4 How many ronds-de-cuir in peripheral mairies..must have lived through Robespierre!

2003 P. Joris Nomad Poetics ii. 44 Theory is late, & belongs to the imperial city construct, the sedentary revenge of the ronds de cuir, those who have leather as pant seats, rather than as saddle.

2. A round leather cushion, traditionally used on office chairs in France.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > support or rest > [noun] > cushion > leather cushion

rond de cuir1898

1898 G. Saintsbury in E. Marriage tr. H. de Balzac Princess's Secrets Pref. p. x He had been destined himself by kind family friends to the rond-de-cuir (the office-stool).

1915 W. 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?

1938 Times 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.

1963 J. Y. Cousteau Living Sea xvii. 190 On the director's chair lay a trouser-polished rond-de-cuir... I pointed to the rond-de-cuir and told him, ‘Please take that thing away.’

1995 A. Furst Polish Officer 113 The antidote was a chair-sized round of leather—rond de cuir—carried daily to work, placed ever so precisely beneath the clerical behind.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rond de cuir
释义	rond de cuirn. Brit. /rɒ̃ də ˈkwɪə/, U.S. /ˌrɑn də ˈkwɪ(ə)r/ Inflections: Plural ronds de cuir, (rare) ronds de cuirs, rond de cuirs. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rond de cuir. Etymology: < French rond de cuir round leather cushion (1867), (depreciatively) bureaucrat (1883) < rond round object (see round n.¹) + de de prep. + cuir leather (see cuirass n.).The depreciative use of the word in sense 1 was perhaps popularized by the title of Messieurs les Ronds-de-cuir (1893), a novel by the French writer Georges Courteline. In plural form ronds de cuir after the French plural form. 1. In France: a bureaucrat; a person who works at a desk, an office worker; (also) bureaucrats or office workers collectively. Also attributive. depreciative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun] > bureaucrat or bureaucratist bureaucrat1832 paper-chaser1884 paper-pusher1942 rond de cuir1963 1886 Imperial & Asiatic Q. Rev. 1 421 The Lungchou line is to be undertaken, but with the wretched French Tariff and general rond-de-cuir system of Tonquin, no one need be for an instant afraid of the French competition. 1897 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 126 Undoubtedly there are too many French officials, or, as they call them, ronds-de-cuir. 1898 19th Cent. Feb. 231 It is the army of the ronds-de-cuir, a stalwart body which has always formed an insurmountable obstacle to reforms, which even revolutions have not vanquished, and before which every government has had to bow down. 1963 I. Fleming On Her Majesty's Secret Service xxiv. 259 I am just a pilot. I am not a ‘rond de cuir’, a chairborne flyer. 1975 Listener 4 Sept. 314/4 How many ronds-de-cuir in peripheral mairies..must have lived through Robespierre! 2003 P. Joris Nomad Poetics ii. 44 Theory is late, & belongs to the imperial city construct, the sedentary revenge of the ronds de cuir, those who have leather as pant seats, rather than as saddle. 2. A round leather cushion, traditionally used on office chairs in France. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > support or rest > [noun] > cushion > leather cushion rond de cuir1898 1898 G. Saintsbury in E. Marriage tr. H. de Balzac Princess's Secrets Pref. p. x He had been destined himself by kind family friends to the rond-de-cuir (the office-stool). 1915 W. 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? 1938 Times 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. 1963 J. Y. Cousteau Living Sea xvii. 190 On the director's chair lay a trouser-polished rond-de-cuir... I pointed to the rond-de-cuir and told him, ‘Please take that thing away.’ 1995 A. Furst Polish Officer 113 The antidote was a chair-sized round of leather—rond de cuir—carried daily to work, placed ever so precisely beneath the clerical behind. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886
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