Today's Word "habitue"
One who habitually frequents a place
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habitue \huh-BICH-oo-ay; huh-bich-oo-AY\ (noun) - One who habitually frequents a place.
"In the public house kept by Jesper Darkes, 'zealous partizans in the cause of Liberty,' as one habitue called them, met day and night, laying plans, discussing whether this man or that could be trusted or whether he was spying for the government, speculating on what could be done when the British military arrived, as it surely would." -- Richard M. Ketchum, 'Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War'
Habitue is from the past participle of French habituer,
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