émigré
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.
Origin of émigré
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How to use émigré in a sentence
The first three faculty members at Pond Farm were all Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany.
A new exhibit looks at how one group of émigrés helped create an American movement.
Russian émigrés who left after the Revolution were the first ones from whom I heard tales of epic proportions.
Charles Simic: Why You Should Be an Immigrant, For the Sake of Your Writing Career | Charles Simic | May 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI use his full name deliberately: He is of the Jewish faith, from a family of Russian émigrés.
General Bonaparte had not executed in his army the decrees against the émigrés.
The Second, regarding them as agitators, resolved to proceed against them as against the émigrés.
Lectures on the French Revolution | John Emerich Edward Dalberg-ActonThe émigrés did not trust him, and assigned him no active part in the invasion of the following year.
Lectures on the French Revolution | John Emerich Edward Dalberg-ActonHe proposed that the prerogative should be enlarged, the princes indemnified, the émigrés permitted to return.
Lectures on the French Revolution | John Emerich Edward Dalberg-ActonThe purpose of the allied sovereigns, and of the émigrés who prompted them, stood confessed.
Lectures on the French Revolution | John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
British Dictionary definitions for émigré
/ (ˈɛmɪˌɡreɪ, French emiɡre) /
an emigrant, esp one forced to leave his native country for political reasons
Origin of émigré
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