‖ emigré
Also émigré.
[Fr.: pa. pple. of émigrer to emigrate.]
1. A Frenchman who has left his country for another; esp. one of those Royalists who fled at the French Revolution.
| 1792 Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) I. 363 The Geneva emigrés..are hastening to their homes. 18.. T. Archer Sword & Shuttle i, Our emigrés..had settled in Spitalfields. |
2. transf. An emigrant of any nationality, esp. a political exile.
| 1955 Times 3 May 5/5 Czechoslovakian émigrés, who were disaffected towards the then régime in Czechoslovakia. 1965 New Statesman 30 Apr. 686/2 Dusty attics in Munich and Berlin inhabited in and around 1920 by displaced Balts and seedy Russian émigrés. |
3. attrib. and Comb., as emigré artist, emigré-club, etc.
| 1954 Koestler Invisible Writing xxii. 247 They read their emigré papers, frequented their emigré-clubs and cafés. 1956 Ann Reg. 1955 237 To persuade émigré Poles to return. 1962 Times 12 Oct. 15/7 When they [sc. Australian painters] have become émigré artists. 1964 V. Nabokov Defence xiv. 222 Paying no attention to the speeches she heard at émigré political meetings. |