habitué

Definition

One who frequents a place.

Etymology

Borrowed from French habitué, past participle of habituer (“to frequent”), from Late Latin habituare (“to habituate”), from habitus.

Example Sentences

• "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."

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