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emigre
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1792, from French émigré "an emigrant," noun use of past participle of émigrer "emigrate" (18c.), from Latin emigrare "depart from a place" (see emigration ). Originally used of royalist refugees from the French Revolution; extended 1920s to refugees from ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who leaves one country to settle in another [syn: emigrant , emigree , outgoer ]
Usage examples of emigre.
Corresponding with emigres and writing counterrevolutionary propaganda.
Obviously inspired by his encounter with Novotvor-tseva, this story takes the form of a scornful and outraged letter from an emigre reader to an emigree authoress.
Since even the widows of eminent emigres qualified, Elena Nabokov in October 1923 moved with her daughter Elena to Prague, where Karel Kramaf, the Russophile Czech statesman, had invited her to stay at his villa.
Ahead of them lay the flowering steppe where the Grand Tourney would be held, with its grandstands and fair buildings and other structures now almost completely refurbished by the industrious goblin emigres.
Excited squeaks resonated across the bay as another set of emigres followed Makanee to an assembly point, on a rocky islet in the middle of the harbor.