[f. ELOPE.] One who elopes.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), IV. 212. To be … an eloper from my friends to him.
1782. Miss Burney, Cecilia, ii. (D.). By making you an eloper with a duellist.
1830. Marryat, King’s Own, I. xviii. 282. Seizing what was left, and cursing the elopers.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. xii. 126. The report … makes the lady a willing eloper.
1879. T. H. S. Escott, England, II. 198. He is taken into a room where … he recognises the eloper.
