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plural habitants
(Canada) a member of habitation colony at Stadacona founded by Samuel de Champlain, where Quebec City now lies examples
(archaic) Inhabitant, dweller. quotations
The last dark branches which intercepted his view gave way, and he saw a heap of blackened ruins. Scarcely aware of his own actions, he sprang from his horse. A single glance convinced him it could harbour no human habitant.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], pages 288–289
Myriads of habitants are ever sleeping,Or dead, or fled from nameless pestilence!
1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night