| 单词 |
pensionnat |
| 释义 |
‖ pensionnat|pɑ̃sjɔna|
[Fr.]
a. In France and other European countries, a boarding-school.
b. = pension n. 6 b.
1840J. 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. 1853C. Brontë Villette I. vii. 121 As I spoke English, she concluded I was a foreign teacher come on business connected with the Pensionnat. 1867J. A. Symonds Let. 26 Sept. (1967) I. 761 We do not see very much of other Pensionnats. They are formed chiefly of Germans, Russians & Americans. 1896C. Shorter C. Brontë & her Circle iv. 100 The girls were day boarders at the Pensionnat. 1933Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Sept. 653/1 A mildly amusing story in mildly bad taste about a pensionnat in Switzerland. 1963Listener 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. 1967R. Petrie Foreign Bodies ii. 27 ‘Then this house is a pension? A boarding establishment?.. And not, definitely not, a pensionnat?’.. ‘Ah, Monsieur..we are a boarding-house, not a boarding-school.’ 1972A. Christie Elephants can Remember v. 78 They had children... A boy at school in England and a girl at a pensionnat in Switzerland. |
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