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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(chiefly literary) Someone suffering from tuberculosis, or a similar lung disease..
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.
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Poitrinaire means (chiefly literary) Someone suffering from tuberculosis, or a similar lung disease..
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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.
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