pumps : nf (word from latin pump, Greek pump)
The word “pump” has several meanings:
1. Aged or literary meaning: Deployment of pomp in a ceremonial (device, ceremony ; apparatus, Luxury, magnificence, splendor).
The pomp of solemnities.
– Quote from the French writer Pierre Loti (1850-1923): “A farewell tea for which we will display as much pomp as possible”.
Le contempt pomps and parades.
Specially: The undertaker.
Modern: undertakers.
Modern and often ironic: in great pump: with a solemnity exaggerated.
Arrive en great pump.
2. Aged meaning: Nobility of style.
Pejorative: emphasis (pompous).
3. Religion : The vanities du monde.
Renounce to Satan, to his pomp and his works.