单词 | pensionnat |
释义 | pensionnatn. 1. In France and other European countries: a boarding school. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > boarding school charge-house1598 pensiona1652 tabling school1660 boarding school1677 board-school1740 pensionnat1840 residential school1876 pension-school1902 1840 J. R. Hope-Scott in R. Ornsby Mem. (1884) I. xiii. 247 Their pupils [in Germany] might come to their classes, but at night they go home, and in their pensionnats..it was impossible to prevent the parents coming every fifteen days or so. 1853 C. Brontë Villette I. vii. 121 As I spoke English, she concluded I was a foreign teacher come on business connected with the Pensionnat. 1896 C. Shorter Charlotte Brontë & her Circle iv. 100 The girls were day boarders at the Pensionnat. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Sept. 653/1 A mildly amusing story in mildly bad taste about a pensionnat in Switzerland. 1972 A. Christie Elephants can Remember v. 78 They had children... A boy at school in England and a girl at a pensionnat in Switzerland. 1994 L. Gordon Charlotte Brontë (1995) iv. 128 He teaches English to thick, coarse girls, and discovers the devious character of the directress of the pensionnat. 2. A boarding house. Cf. pension n. 7c. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > boarding house pensiona1652 boarding-house1728 lodging-house1766 private hotel1796 drum1846 boarding-place1854 lodging-hall1860 rooming house1873 chawl1891 model1899 guest house1925 kipping-house1925 pensione1929 pensionnat1963 1963 Listener 10 Jan. 73/1 There are increasing numbers of hotels..called pensionnats. These differ from regular hotels in providing only the bare facilities of rooms and meals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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