habitue

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

ha·bit·u·é

[huh-bich-oo-ey, -bich-oo-ey; Fr. a-bee-twey]
noun, plural ha·bit·u·és [huh-bich-oo-eyz, -bich-oo-eyz; Fr. a-bee-twey] .
a frequent or habitual visitor to a place: a habitué of art galleries.

Origin:
1810–20; < French, noun use of masculine past participle of habituer < Late Latin habituāre. See habituate
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Habitue is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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habitue

noun
a regular patron; "an habitue of the racetrack"; "a bum who is a Central Park fixture" [syn: regular
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