en pension
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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You will see at the farmer's some of my pea-fowls en pension.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White
They take us en pension, for ever so little a day.
From Louisa Pallant by Henry James
The English and Americans eat in their hotels, en pension.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley
The French officers in garrison messed, en pension, at our hotel, but their fare, limited by a close economy, was not only meagre, but, with all the accompaniments of the table, absolutely disgusting.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
She knew a few people—strange folk, I thought them—elderly spinsters living en pension at different hotels.
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by George (George Augustus) Moore
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