habitant

Example Sentences

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France consumes about 2.2 pounds of mustard a year per habitant, making it the world’s largest consumer.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2022

In old Quebec Province, the conservative, independent, devoutly Catholic habitant had developed his own culture on his farms.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the door suddenly open to new opportunities, the church-oriented conservative rural habitant rapidly evolved into the secular, outgoing urban Quebecois, with typically North American tastes for big cars, color-television sets and le rock.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stocky, earnest Louis Robichaud is the descendant of an habitant who settled in the province in 1609.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where now the French habitant sits chattering with his confrères and smoking his pipe filled with home-grown tabac were once the shady walks and stiff parterres of the ancient garden.

From Famous Firesides of French Canada by Alloway, Mary Wilson