rond-de-cuir

Updated: June 14, 2025

"Oh, I quite see, dear," said Barbara, with a familiar little flash in her blue eyes. "But 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?" "It might be economical, too," said I, "in the way of saving shininess! Adrian laughed. "It does look a bit hard, darling," said he.

William John Locke - Jaffery