émigré

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From French émigré.

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émigré (plural émigrés)

  1. A Frenchman who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the French Revolution.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 516:
      Any émigré who had returned to France without obtaining government consent was required to leave France forthwith [...].
  2. An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another, especially a political exile.
    • 2007, Eve LaPlante, The opposite of Thanksgiving:
      In 1621 in Plymouth, émigré English Calvinists struggled to make their way in the harsh climate of this New World.
    • 2007, “A Free Life,” Publishers Weekly, 23 Jul 2007:
      His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.

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Noun [edit]

émigré m (plural émigrés; feminine émigrée, plural émigrées)

  1. emigrant

Verb [edit]

émigré m (feminine émigrée, masculine plural émigrés, feminine plural émigrées)

  1. Past participle of émigrer

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