habitan
noun
habitans
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pluralof habitan.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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At Lorette, it divides the village in twain: a western section, for the most part peopled by French-Canadian habitans; an eastern one, inhabited by half-breed Indians, a remnant of the once powerful Hurons of old.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various
The French habitans about Sandwich and Detroit were in possession of horses in 1793, as well as their fellow countrymen in Lower Canada.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
The jabbering of the people, though, was not entirely strange to his ears; he had heard its like from the habitans of Canada.
From The Road to Paris by Robert Neilson Stephens
Everything was marked by stagnation and retrogression: the people are habitans, the clergy curés.
From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
However, I suspect you may be on the look-out for a visit from them in spring—au temps des sucres, as the habitans say.'
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
