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garçonnière en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɡɑɹsənˈjɛɚ/ (General-American)
• /-sɒn-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɡɑːsənˈjɛə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From French garçonnière.

Meanings

1. A bachelor pad.
   • He did not care for money, except to spend it – that was the first: the second was that he did not own a garçonnière, and appeared to be faithful to Justine – an unheard of state of affairs. 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:
   • She [...] fell grievously in love there with a married man, who after one summer of parvenu passion dispensed to her in his Camping Ford garçonnière preferred to give her up rather than run the risk of endangering his social situation [...]. 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 16:

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