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pension house en · NOUN

Etymology

From pension + house.

Meanings

1. A home for the elderly; an old folks' home.
   • Nowadays, Consonno is inhabitated by the guests of an elders' pensionhouse and the only family who has survived the 1960's and 1970's relocation programs: a status of ghost town which has somewhat avoided a large health problem, […] 2007, Franco Alessandro Cavalleri, Our Common Future. 20 years after.:
2. A lodging which is usually less exquisite and thus more affordable than a hotel.
   • There is, besides, the H. de Bains, in a garden by the riverside, the resort of persons drinking the waters of a mineral spring; it is a sort of Pensionhouse and Inn. 1884, John Murray, A Handbook for Travellers in France:

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