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n. One who lives in a pension; a boarder.

n. One who receives a pension.

n. 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).

"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."