Adjective

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Having had long experience, practice, or service.

* Macaulay

The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veteran diplomatists and courtiers.

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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}

Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.

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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.

*1777 , Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland

*:The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.