garçonnièren.
/ɡɑːsɒnˈjɛː/ A bachelor's rooms or flat.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > houses occupied by specific types of people
grass house1557
woman-house1566
fishing-house1676
family house1727
henhouse1785
women-house1792
bachelor('s) hall1841
bachelor-apartment1857
garçonnière1927
bachelor1968
bachelorette1973
pit house1974
squat1975
1927 New Statesman 15 Oct. 17 A young rake who..turns his capercailzie hut into a garçonnière.
1938 H. G. Wells Apropos of Dolores iii. 124 In Paris, in her world, there is no such thing as an innocent garconnière.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited viii. 178 Two emancipated American girls who shared a garconnière.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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