poitrinaire

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone suffering from tuberculosis, or a similar lung disease. literary
    — 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.

词形变化

poitrinaires plural

词源

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