garçonnière
Syllables: gar·çon·nière/ɡɑːsənˈjɛə/US/ɡɑɹsənˈjɛɚ/
garçonnière noun: a bachelor pad.
Noun
garçonnière (plural garçonnières)
- 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
Forms of garçonnière
| plural | garçonnières |
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Origin of garçonnière
From French garçonnière.
Words that rhyme with garçonnière
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- declare
- hair
- Sinclair
- where
- ayr
- care
- layer
- mayor
- parterre
- fare
- glare
- lair
- pear
- prayer
- snare
- compare
- dare
- rare
- share
- swear
- ware
- wear and tear
- Ayer
- blare
- flair
- forbear
- Kerr
- laissez faire
- mousquetaire
- pare
- prepare
- repair
- stare
- unfair
- yare
- -ware
- abear
- aflare
- despair
- glair
- heir
- impair
- Pierre
- reair
- scare
- tare
- trillionaire
- Voltaire
Questions about garçonnière
- What does garçonnière mean?
- Garçonnière means a bachelor pad.
- What part of speech is garçonnière?
- Garçonnière is a noun.
- How do you pronounce garçonnière?
- Garçonnière is pronounced /ɡɑɹsənˈjɛɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of garçonnière?
- The plural of garçonnière is garçonnières.
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