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

In old Quebec Province, the conservative, independent, devoutly Catholic habitant had developed his own culture on his farms.

From Time Magazine Archive

The habitant women in their dusty-black Sunday clothes still knelt to pray in ancient Chapelle des Augustines.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tourists invaded the handicraft shops for carved wooden curios, bright habitant shawls, blankets, hooked rugs, and furs.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the habitant the selling, mortgaging, and transfer of property was a private affair; he did not see the need for publicity.

From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by MacMechan, Archibald