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habitué

[huh-bich-oo-ey, -bich-oo-ey, a-bee-twey] / həˈbɪtʃ uˌeɪ, -ˌbɪtʃ uˈeɪ, a biˈtweɪ /


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The older painter, though remaining a salon habitué, lent a Morisot painting he owned to the show.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 25, 2025

The longtime habitué of Griffith Park was a symbol of a ferality lurking under L.A.’s sheen.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2023

While researching, Peters also stumbled across the green darner dragonfly: Washington’s state insect; a habitué of lakes, ponds and springs; and a rich symbol.

From Seattle Times Dec. 9, 2022

“Cerberus of the Upper East Side,” is how Peter Bacanovic, a tech executive and longtime Mortimer’s habitué, recently characterized the man.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2022

There is scarcely any habitué of Hyde Park who could not point the finger of scorn at some howling piece of inaccuracy in this soi-disant representation of Mr Bhosh on his cantankerous gifthorse.

From A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... by Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee

His two daughters attend private schools, while he and his wife, Vivian, are habitués of the local country club.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

The exceptions from the show’s emphasis on Parisian social life and its habitués are two intense self-portraits from 1901, the first few months of which Picasso spent in Madrid and then Barcelona.

From New York Times May 11, 2023

The counterculture movement has deep roots from the granola-crunchy vibe of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury to the chilled-out Abbot Kinney habitués of Venice of old.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2019

Pinsker, lovingly attentive to the habitués of his cafés, leaves the economics of the cafés quite shadowy.

From The New Yorker Dec. 17, 2018

I was surprised to find the usual habitués of the billiard-room sitting in the dining-room.

From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully




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