garçonnière
English
WOTD – 3 August 2011
Etymology
From French garçonnière.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɑɹsənˈjɛɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɑːsənˈjɛə/
Audio (RP) (file)
- Hyphenation: gar‧çon‧nière
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Noun
garçonnière (plural garçonnières)
- A bachelor pad.
- 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:
- 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.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 16:
- 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 [...].
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Translations
bachelor pad — see bachelor pad
French
Etymology
garçon + -ière
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaʁ.sɔ.njɛʁ/
Noun
garçonnière f (plural garçonnières)
- bachelor pad
- 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis:
- Des passants nous épieraient. Je ferais semblant de ne pas les voir. Je recevrais ma maîtresse dans une garçonnière au rez-de-chaussée d’une maison neuve.
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- (Louisiana) an attic, usually accessed from the front porch, where the male children of a household traditionally slept
Synonyms
- baisodrome
- pied-à-terre
- studio
Adjective
garçonnière
- feminine singular of garçonnier
Further reading
- “garçonnière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French garçonnière.
Noun
garçonnière f (invariable)
- bachelor pad
- love nest, fuckpad
- Synonym: scannatoio
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French garçonnière.
Noun
garçonnière f (uncountable)
- (Brazil) love nest