poitrinaire

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poitrinaire

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From French poitrinaire, from poitrine (“chest”).

noun poitrinaires

literary Someone suffering from tuberculosis, or a similar lung disease. His dry cough and eternal light fever spoke of tuberculosis; indeed his whole physiognomy was that of the old traditional poitrinaire, and he had once been placed in a sanatorium where they had collapsed a lung to let it mend.

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@misc{poitrinaire_2026,
  title = {poitrinaire},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/poitrinaire},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}