Synonyms:
patron, frequenter
Meaning: a regular customer
Usage examples
Therefore he was the patron of husbandry.
The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
Eames had joined his patron at the show after his office hours, looking on upon the living beef by gaslight.
I will write a letter of thanks this night, if I am able, to my kind patron, for his inestimable goodness to me.
This happened to my patron, to be sold for a debt of a tavern wherein he had spent the greatest part of his money.
He was busy consoling a monarch for the loss of his throne, and preparing himself and his royal patron for the scaffold.
It served him as a second warning of the circumspection that was necessary; and having taken leave of his friend and patron, under the pretence that "He could not live in the smoke of London," he set out for the North.
He now darted it at his patron, who took it, and felt his mind relieved of a great weight: observing that as they had arranged their joint affairs so satisfactorily, he would now be glad to look into those of Bully Sawyers.
Any one who, wishing to publish a treatise upon the constitution of the country, could not satisfy this threefold condition, would be obliged to procure the endorsement of a responsible patron possessing the requisite qualifications.
Is it not unaccountable that, in the midst of all my increased veneration for my patron, the first tumult of my emotion was scarcely subsided, before the old question that had excited my conjectures recurred to my mind, Was he the murderer?