Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A boarding-school.

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Examples

  • She would be sent to boarding school, not in the States but to some bleak Catholic pensionnat near the Belgian border, like Cécile Matthews who had been caught shoplifting, or Amande Liebeskind, who, it was rumored, had gotten pregnant.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • She would be sent to boarding school, not in the States but to some bleak Catholic pensionnat near the Belgian border, like Cécile Matthews who had been caught shoplifting, or Amande Liebeskind, who, it was rumored, had gotten pregnant.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • She would be sent to boarding school, not in the States but to some bleak Catholic pensionnat near the Belgian border, like Cécile Matthews who had been caught shoplifting, or Amande Liebeskind, who, it was rumored, had gotten pregnant.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • I was chagrined or downcast by the contrast which the reality of a pensionnat de demoiselles presented to my vague ideal of the same community; I was only enlightened and amused; consequently, I felt in no disposition to complain to Mdlle.

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • “Not” (with animation), “not at the pensionnat of Madame Beck?”

    Villette 2003

  • The establishment was both a pensionnat and an externat: the externes or day-pupils exceeded one hundred in number; the boarders were about a score.

    Villette 2003

  • I could only think of the pensionnat in the Rue Fossette.

    Villette 2003

  • I feel quite sure that without this “cachemire” she would not have kept her footing in the pensionnat for two days: by virtue of it, and it only, she maintained the same a month.

    Villette 2003

  • Here, however, in this land of convents and confessionals, such a presence as his was not to be suffered with impunity in a “pensionnat de demoiselles.”

    Villette 2003

  • Yet three days, and then I must go back to the pensionnat.

    Villette 2003

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