What is "emigree"

Usage examples of "emigree".

In October 1919 he heads for Cambridge, and falls in love with a young emigree living in London, Sonia Zilanov, mercurial, critical, a tease, a flirt, a challenge promising little hope of success.

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.

A beautiful Russian girl for whom schoolboys were once ready to shoot themselves turns slowly into a thirty-year-old emigree, still beautiful, but impoverished, tense, and aware she has passed beyond the age at which anyone will fall in love with her.

In the end, she had deprived him of her conversation by moving in with an older woman, a Romanian emigree who edited an intellectual journal.

He and his wife, a Russian emigree named Larissa Volokhonsky, had an apartment on the fourth floor of a brownstone on West 107th Street.

Rich emigrees and the professionals of the Order, mostly, lived in these apartments, each of which had its own private multrum and fireplace.

Now the population was so heavily Weighted toward emigrees that even American institutions like banks and gas stations had signs written in both English letters and Chinese characters.