Meaning & use
Émigrés
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People who have left their native country, especially for political reasons.
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Many Russian émigrés settled in Paris after the revolution.
The café became a gathering place for émigrés swapping news from home.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from French, the word originally referred specifically to aristocrats who fled France during the Revolution.
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