9 October 2014

habitué

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

noun, plural habitués [huh-bich-oo-eyz, -bich-oo-eyz; French a-bee-twey] (Show IPA)

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

Origin
Late Latin
1810-1820; < French, noun use of masculine past participle of habituer < Late Latin habituāre. See habituate
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Examples from the web for habitué

– It is said he is a confirmed morphine habitue and his mind has been falling ever since he was arrested a couple of months ago.
– When the mood possessed him he could be as entertaining a companion as any club habitue.

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Today’s aphorism

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

– John Lennon

On this day

9 October 1940 – birthday of John Lennon. English guitarist and singer-songwriter for the Beatles. Murdered 8 December 1980.

9 October 1967 – death of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary, physician, author. Executed in Bolivia.

9 October 1969 – birth of P.J. Harvey, English musician.

9 October 1975 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet dissident, wins Nobel Peace Prize.