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the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives
- That congregation of bourgeois habitations, pressed together like the cells in a hive, had a beauty of its own.1.3.2 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 2 — A Bird's-Eye View of Paris (60% in)
- Such was the creature who had received, from her habitation, the name of the "recluse"; and, from her garment, the name of "the sacked nun."1.6.3 — Vol 1 Bk 6 Chpt 3 — History of a Leavened Cake of Maize (81% in)
- "I tell you," repeated his companion, with a thick tongue, "that I don't live in the Rue des Mauvaises Paroles, ~indignus qui inter mala verba habitat~.2.7.7 — Vol 2 Bk 7 Chpt 7 — The Mysterious Monk (16% in)
- The Marshal de Clermont was seized last night, etc." Hence, not only the royal habitations, the Louvre, the Palace, the Bastille, the Tournelles, but simply seignorial residences, the Petit-Bourbon, the Hôtel de Sens, the Hôtel d' Angoulême, etc., had battlements on their walls, and machicolations over their doors.2.10.4 — Vol 2 Bk 10 Chpt 4 — An Awkward Friend (25% in)
There are no more uses of "habitat" in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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