What is "lingerers"

Usage examples of "lingerers".

The hard wooden seats were designed to discourage lingerers, and Jonathan had to shift awkwardly about to stop his legs from going numb.

By ten o'clock, even the inveterate lingerers had departed, and Lady Broome, yawning behind her fan, was saying: 'What an intolerable bore country dinner-parties are!

A few lingerers were still drinking at the buffet, but servants were moving around, beginning to clear away.