habitué

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

/ həˈbɪtʃ uˌeɪ, -ˌbɪtʃ uˈeɪ; French a biˈtweɪ /

a frequent or habitual visitor to a place: a habitué of art galleries.

Origin of habitué

1810–20; < French, noun use of masculine past participle of habituer < Late Latin habituāre. See habituate

The police are determined to raid one of our establishments: they adopt the course of tracking an habitue.

The Yellow Claw |Sax Rohmer
Once he found Rodney Page there, lounging about with the manner of a habitue.

Dangerous Days |Mary Roberts Rinehart
Especially, I would say, is this the attitude of the habitue of Montmartre.

Europe Revised |Irvin S. Cobb
The spirit of our time and of our country knows no such thing, but the habitue of "society" hears constantly of "a good family."

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) |Various

Enticed by degrees into this den of ruin, becoming fascinated with its games of chance, he is how an habitue.

An Outcast |F. Colburn Adams

habitué

/ (həˈbɪtjʊˌeɪ) /

a frequent visitor to a place

C19: from French, from habituer to frequent