émigré
English
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Etymology
Noun
émigré (plural émigrés)
- A French person 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.
- 2014, James Wood, On Not Going Home London Review of Books, 20 Feb 2014:
- In that essay, Said distinguishes between exile, refugee, expatriate and émigré.
- 2007, Eve LaPlante, The opposite of Thanksgiving:
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
émigré m (plural émigrés, feminine émigrée)
Participle
émigré (feminine émigrée, masculine plural émigrés, feminine plural émigrées)
Further reading
- “émigré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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