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habitué

[ huh-bich-oo-ey, -bich-oo-ey; French a-bee-twey ]

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noun

, plural ha·bit·u·és [h, uh, -, bich, -oo-eyz, -bich-oo-, eyz, a, -bee-, twey].

habitué

/ həˈbɪtjʊˌeɪ /

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First recorded in 1810–20; from French, noun use of masculine past participle of habituer, from Late Latin habituāre; habituate

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C19: from French, from habituer to frequent

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The spirit of our time and of our country knows no such thing, but the habitue of "society" hears constantly of "a good family."

Time after time I have seen him committed to prison, until he became a hopeless prison habitue.

She was not such an habitue of the theatre as not to be intensely interested with what was enacted before her.

We got out our bacon and crackers and enjoyed a supper that no habitue of a Delmonico could have relished more.

Without being a habitue of the theater, I have enjoyed it from time to time all along my life-road.

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