[Fr.: pa. pple. of émigrer to EMIGRATE.] 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.
