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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

Shown evidence later that week by a HuffPost reporter that the man was a well-known habitué of St. Louis Cardinals baseball games, Mr. McBride replied: “If I’m wrong, so be it, bro. I don’t care.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 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

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

Practically speaking, he as an impoverished noble had reaped advantage from his place as habitué of the circle of a rich American in a land where a nice percentage exists on custom.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 by Various

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

The exceptions from the show’s emphasis on Parisian social life and its habitués are two intense self-portraits from 1901, the first few months of which Picasso spent in Madrid and then Barcelona.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2023

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

Pinsker, lovingly attentive to the habitués of his cafés, leaves the economics of the cafés quite shadowy.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018

For some strange reason, the general opinion of habitués of the river prior to that match was that the Bucks channel gave the better course.

From Boating by W. B. Woodgate




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