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habitué

[huh-bich-oo-ay, -bich-oo-ay, a-bee-tway] / 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

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

Which meant that for about four months this longtime habitué of New York’s cultural scene essentially had no nightlife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2020

Lange also recorded words on placards and billboards within the photograph itself, following a trail blazed by Walker Evans, a habitué of avant-garde literary circles in New York who loved written language.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2020

Practical joking, says an habitué, relieves the excitement of this feverish gambling.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

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

As narrated by Damon Runyon in his signature “Guys and Dolls” style, they describe the tiffs and rivalries among the habitués of a celestial saloon.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2021

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

And it mattered that what café habitués were habituated to was drinking coffee.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018

Those three months had brought him into intimate touch with the dens and dives, and many of the habitués of the underworld, since it was amongst those surroundings that his investigations had mainly led him.

From Doors of the Night by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard




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