Category:Refugee

Ref`u*gee" (rf`*j"), n. Etym: [f. réfugié, fr. se réfugier to take Refuge. See refuge, n.]

1. One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.

2. Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political Commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left france after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.