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A French bureaucrat or functionary; an office worker. / (colloquial, derogatory) A pen-pusher.

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rond-de-cuir

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rond-de-cuir

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɹɒ̃ də ˈkwɪə/

Noun

colloquial derogatory

A French bureaucrat or functionary; an office worker. / (colloquial, derogatory) A pen-pusher.

Japanese Meaning

フランスの官僚、または官僚主義に基づいた事務職に従事する人。 / （俗語・軽蔑的な意味で）書類仕事ばかりする、融通の利かないオフィスワーカー

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As usual, the rond-de-cuir demanded three copies of the form before agreeing to process it.

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いつものように、フランスの官僚は手続きを進める前にその書類の写しを3部要求した。

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A French bureaucrat or functionary; an office worker.

In 1893, Georges Courteline immortalised France's petty bureaucrats in a satirical novel called Messieurs les Ronds-de-Cuir, after the leather cushions that civil servants sat on. The "ronds-de-cuir" are still ridiculed and detested. Like Courteline's bureaucrats, the tormentors of the préfecture derive sadistic pleasure from sending people away for ever more documents.

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(colloquial, derogatory) A pen-pusher.

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