habitué

Example Sentences

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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

Isaac’s character, William Tell, is, as the title declares, a professional gambler, a habitué of casinos, an expert at counting cards.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2021

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

Her first love, a fellow marsh habitué who sweetly teaches her to read and write, does not return for her as promised once he leaves for college.

From Slate • Jul. 30, 2019

Something new and unguessed beneath the husk of boredom, the indolent pose of body, had suddenly looked from his blazing eyes: something foreign to Vanity Valiant, the club habitué, the spoiled scion of wealth.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie