émigré
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English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From French émigré.
Noun [edit]
émigré (plural émigrés)
- 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 [...].
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 516:
- 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.
- 2007, Eve LaPlante, The opposite of Thanksgiving:
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Noun [edit]
émigré m (plural émigrés; feminine émigrée, plural émigrées)
Verb [edit]
émigré m (feminine émigrée, masculine plural émigrés, feminine plural émigrées)
- Past participle of émigrer
