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éé

[em-i-grey, ey-mee-grey]

noun

plural

éés 
  1. an emigrant, especially a person who flees from their native land because of political conditions.

  2. a person who fled from France because of opposition to or fear of the revolution that began in 1789.



éé

/ ˈɛmɪˌɡreɪ, emiɡre /

noun

  1. an emigrant, esp one forced to leave his native country for political reasons

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of éé1

First recorded in 1785–95; from French: noun use of past participle of é, from Latin ŧī to emigrate
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of éé1

C18: from French, from é to emigrate
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Marsak’s affection for the past extends to Arnold Hylen, a solitary, mild-mannered Swedish éé, whose book of mid-20th century photos and an essay about old Los Angeles, “Los Angeles Before the Freeways 1850-1950: Images of an Era,” was recently reissued by Angel City Press in a new edition curated and expanded by Marsak.

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Like Schoenberg before him, the Russian éé composer tried but failed to get a lucrative contract scoring a Hollywood film.

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And, lately, he’d been having clandestine trysts with a Russian emigre with KGB ties, Svetlana Ogorodnikova, in cars and cheap hotels around Los Angeles.

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But it turns out that two other éé composers, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner, who were both influenced by Mahler, created the modern symphonic film score.

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Brady Corbet’s epic tale of an emigré architect in midcentury America, “The Brutalist,” was next on the list with nine.

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What does éé mean?

An éé is an emigrant, especially one who has fled their home country due to oppressive political conditions.An emigrant is any person who has emigrated or is emigrating—permanently leaving home in one country or region to settle in another.While emigrants can emigrate for a number of reasons, the word éé typically implies that someone has fled political oppression or political conditions that they strongly disagree with.The word éé is sometimes used in a more specific way to refer to a person who fled from France before, during, or after the French Revolution, which began in 1789. Such éés were often aristocrats who feared that they would be targeted by violence during the revolution or otherwise opposed it.The related word immigrant refers to someone who moves to a place, as opposed to away from it. Of course, éés are also immigrants since they have to settle somewhere after they leave.The word is sometimes seen without the accent marks (as emigre).Example: Thousands of éés fled Germany during the rise of Hitler in the 1930s.

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