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語源

From Middle French pensionnaire, pensionaire.

名詞

pensionnaire (plural pensionnaires)

1. (obsolete) Someone receiving a pension. [17th–19th c.]
2. Someone who boards at a lodging-house, school, or other institution; a boarder, especially in France or other European countries. [from 18th c.]
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     [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. [from 19th c.]