poitrinaire
English edit
Etymology edit
From French poitrinaire, from poitrine (“chest”).
Noun edit
poitrinaire (plural poitrinaires)
- (chiefly literary) Someone suffering from tuberculosis, or a similar lung disease.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 389:
- His dry cough and eternal light fever spoke of tuberculosis; indeed his whole physiognomy was that of the old traditional poitrinaire, and he had once been placed in a sanatorium where they had collapsed a lung to let it mend.
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
poitrinaire (plural poitrinaires)
Further reading edit
- “poitrinaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.