émigrés

Noun

émigré (plural émigrés)

1. (historical) A French person who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the French Revolution.
   • Any émigré who had returned to France without obtaining government consent was required to leave France forthwith […]2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 516
2. An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another, especially a political exile.
   • Slava Tsukerman is a Soviet émigré who has lived in New York City since 1976, apparently long enough for him to get the lay of the land.1983 July 22, Janet Maslin, “‘Liquid Sky,’ High Fashion and a U.F.O.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN