Meaning of pensionnaire | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone receiving a pension.
   obsolete
2. Someone who boards at a lodging-house, school, or other institution; a boarder, especially in France or other European countries.
3. A junior member of the Comédie Française.

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Examples

“[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.”

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