émigré (also emigre):
(pronunciation: the first ‘é’ rhymes with the letter ‘e’ in “empty”, and the end sound with the letters ‘gré’ rhymes with the word “grey”)
This word is differently by different people and for the different pronunciations of this word, please click here.
an emigre form Russia
a person who leaves one’s country for political reasons, especially the one who left France after the French Revolution or who left Russia after the Russian Revolution;
an emigrant (← ← previous entry),
For article that shows us how we come across this word in our causal readings, please click here, and for another serious piece of writing that shows us how we come across this word in our daily readings, please click here and for another article that speaks of emigre culture in Canada, please click here. For an interesting article about ‘Emigre Magazine and graphic designing’, please click here.
