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
The tourists invaded the handicraft shops for carved wooden curios, bright habitant shawls, blankets, hooked rugs, and furs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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In old Quebec Province, the conservative, independent, devoutly Catholic habitant had developed his own culture on his farms.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The white pony was running as it had not done since it was a colt in lower Canada, and had carried its habitant master in many a race, and won them, too.
From Harper's Round Table, August 13, 1895 by Various