poitrinaire

English

Etymology

From French poitrinaire, from poitrine (“chest”).

Noun

poitrinaire (plural poitrinaires)

1. (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

Etymology

From poitrine +‎ -aire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pwa.tʁi.nɛʁ/

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Adjective

poitrinaire (plural poitrinaires)

1. (archaic) consumptive, tubercular, phthistic

Further reading

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