habitué
Example Sentences
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The victim was “a habitue of bars in several Southland communities.”
From Los Angeles Times
In “Chicago,” Rob Marshall’s film version of the 1975 musical first staged by Bob Fosse, Catherine Zeta-Jones plays a different kind of beautiful monster, Velma Kelley, a former habitue of the Chicago stage now appearing in prison.
From Los Angeles Times
The sleek Blériot, wrote The Post, was a “real, live habitue of the aerial levels.”
From Washington Post
He used to own a used bookstore in Bethesda, Md. A die-hard pool room habitue, he says he more or less lived with a cue in his hands for long stretches from the late 1960s to the early ’80s.
From Washington Post
She sheared off her hair, to the dismay of her boyfriend, prior to the punk era; she was heavily tattooed long before you could get that done down at the mall; she was an early habitué of gyms.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.