Definition of "pensionnaire" []

• One who lives in a pension; a boarder. (noun)
• One who receives a pension. (noun)
• One of the two classes of actors at the Comédie Française, engaged yearly at a fixed salary and, after a certain number of years as a probationer, nominated and usually admitted sociétaire (which see). (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In 1838 she signed a contract as a pensionnaire at the most prestigious institution of the French stage, the Comédie Française, the official state theater where Samson himself was an actor."
• "Aurelia and Adele were in the first division of the second class; the second division was headed by a pensionnaire named"
• "J'y avais été pensionnaire au début des années cinquante!"