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pensionnaire

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From Middle French pensionnaire, pensionaire.

noun pensionnaires · pensionaire

  1. obsolete Someone receiving a pension.
  2. Someone who boards at a lodging-house, school, or other institution; a boarder, especially in France or other European countries. [H]e found she had not taken the veil; but her mother being lately dead, had entered as a pensionaire, until her family-affairs could be adjusted.
  3. A junior member of the Comédie Française.

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@misc{pensionnaire_2026,
  title = {pensionnaire},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pensionnaire},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}