garçonnière

From French garçonnière.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑɹsənˈjɛɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːsənˈjɛə/

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• Hyphenation: gar‧çon‧nière
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

garçonnière (plural garçonnières)

1. 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 [...].

From garçon +‎ -ière.

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʁ.sɔ.njɛʁ/

garçonnière f (plural garçonnières)

1. 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.

     Passers-by would spy on us. I would pretend not to see them. I would see my mistress in a bachelor flat on the ground floor of a new house.

2. (Louisiana) an attic, usually accessed from the front porch, where the male children of a household traditionally slept

• baisodrome
• pied-à-terre
• studio

garçonnière

1. feminine singular of garçonnier

• → English: garçonnière
• → Greek: γκαρσονιέρα (gkarsoniéra)
• → Italian: garçonnière
• → Polish: garsoniera
• → Portuguese: garçonnière
• → Romanian: garsonieră

• “garçonnière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French garçonnière.

garçonnière f (invariable)

1. bachelor pad
2. love nest, fuckpad

   Synonym: scannatoio

Unadapted borrowing from French garçonnière.

garçonnière f (uncountable)

1. (Brazil) love nest