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émigré

[ em-i-grey; French ey-mee-grey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural é·mi·grés [em, -i-greyz, ey-mee-, grey].

an emigrant, especially a person who flees from their native land because of political conditions.
a person who fled from France because of opposition to or fear of the revolution that began in 1789.

émigré

/ emiɡre; ˈɛmɪˌɡreɪ /

First recorded in 1785–95; from French: noun use of past participle of émigrer, from Latin ēmīgrāre to emigrate

C18: from French, from émigrer to emigrate

Another partner in Trump Soho is the Russian émigré developer Tamir Sapir, who lives in a $5 million Trump Tower condo.

After his ouster, Ben Ali apparently wanted to find refuge and exile in France, which has a large Tunisian émigré population.

Marie Antoinette was right in her estimate of feeling in the émigré camp.

That plot had been authorised by the princes, on the émigré lines, and aimed at the restoration of the old order.

The autobiography is practically that of an émigré, although the Bishop-designate was a “déporté.”

One was of a wealthy émigré, permitted to return to France by the Em—by Napoleon.

But she gave a shy assent, and for me the evening at Émigré's Retreat was a grand success.

April 20, 2024flabbergast

[flab-er-gast ]

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