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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

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

It might have been expected that the ci-devant habitué of the Horse Guards, in conformity with past habits, would have made some attempt to arrange his toilet for the reception of a stranger.

From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid

Business-class habitués might not care much but, when you’re splurging, it all starts with the welcome in my book.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 18, 2026

That is hardly news to habitués of the Marché d’Aligre, Paris’s oldest food market, founded in 1779.

From New York Times Dec. 22, 2021

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

From The New Yorker Dec. 17, 2018

And shouldn’t there have been more YouTube habitués in attendance at Trillectro to do that absorbing?

From Washington Post Sep. 23, 2018

Dr. Price was one of the habitués of the London Coffee House, and, in Franklin's letters to him from Passy, there are repeated references to the happy hours that the writer had spent there.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce




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