habitué

Definitions

1. One who frequents a place.
2. Alternative spelling of habitué.
   alt-of, alternative
3. A devotee.

Equivalents

Examples

“A month ago the new smoking ban turned thousands of bar-room habitués into reluctant exiles from their usual corner seat.”

“At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own⟳ select⟳ circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.”

“Indeed, many guests even became habitués in order⟳ to blaze a trail with reckless abandon seven days a week.”

“The live⟳ circuit's arenas and stadiums, its enormodomes, are flourishing. I am a habitué of them, particularly the O2 Arena.”

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