escapée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escapées
Senses: examples: text: These two men are described as monsters in human form, and the worst of the desperate escapées.
ref: 1876, William Brackley Wildey, Australasia and the Oceanic Region with Some Notice of New Guinea, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide: George Robertson, page 399:
text: The other prisoner Joseph Wiltshire, alias Richards, alias Richardson, is believed to be one of seven French escapées who left Noumea about 1875 in a Government boat loaded with flour, and who arrived in the same year at Tin Can Bay, near Maryborough, Queensland.
ref: 1884 June 5, Jules P. Roche, “French Criminals”, in Federal Council of Australasia. Session of 1886., published 27 January 1886, page 38:
text: The number of French people living in the Colony was in all probability somewhat understated, escapées and expirées from the penal settlement of New Caledonia, who added to the number of the French resident in New South Wales, giving false names and claiming as birthplaces countries other than their own.
ref: 1894, T. A. Coghlan, “The Birthplaces of the People”, in Census of 1891. Statistician’s Report. General Report on the Eleventh Census of New South Wales, Sydney: Charles Potter, page 183, column 2:
text: The specimens shown were evidently escapées from cultivation.
ref: 1914, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, volume 38, page 399:
text: France proposed to place convicts on the islands. This awoke Australia to the danger of escapées landing on her shores, and she strenuously opposed the efforts of France to obtain the islands.
ref: 1914, William Gunn, The Gospel in Futuna: With Chapters on the Islands of the New Hebrides, the People, Their Customs, Religious Beliefs, Etc., page 282:
text: She had several English-speaking escapées in her house one night when the German S.S. came to search.
ref: 1946, Katharine Roberts, And the Bravest of These, page 273:
text: The particular course that the escapées from tension take will depend upon an indefinable reciprocity of forces between the nature of the individual and what he sees in the world about him.
ref: 1957, James Melvin Reinhardt, Sex Perversions and Sex Crimes, page 15:
text: Is not the very fact that they continue to do business with Russia a better evidence of Russia’s keeping her contracts than the testimony of escapées and convicts and criminals and heated agitators?
ref: 1970, The Shaping of American Diplomacy, volume 2, →ISBN, page 147:
text: These fish are partly stocked and partly escapées from fish farms.
ref: 1971, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, volume 28, page 679, column 1:
text: I met others like him, like one veteran who had served his time in Vietnam, was finishing up his enlistment, and got assigned to the Brooklyn Navy Base Stockade as a ‘chaser,’ that is, someone who went after escapées.
ref: 1971, No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran, page 133:
text: About 1953, the species was reported from the canal and lakes between Palavas and Perals (Herault) but the fish may have been escapées from nearby rearing ponds.
ref: 1974, The Blackbass in America and Overseas, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Honours: Knight of the Legion of Honour; War Cross, three citations; Medal for Escapées; Prisoner of War; Cross of Conflict; Norwegian Participation Medal.
ref: 1981, Who’s Who in Western Europe, International Biographical Centre, →ISBN, page 235:
text: Post-independence Ilmorog is no longer a communal whole, but a satellite of the global network of capitalism, as fragmented as the lives of its people and of escapées and recuperés like Munira, Abdullah, Wanja, and Karega.
ref: 1986, Change in Language and Literature: Proceedings of the 16th Triennial Congress of the Fédération Internationale Des Langues Et Littératures Modernes, Held in Budapest, Hungary, August 22-27, 1984, →ISBN, page 48:
text: After an Inquiry into the missing prisoner’s identity it was found that the escapée was none other than the notorious William Williams.
ref: 1986, Peter Fuller, Brian Knapp, Welsh Murders, volumes 1: 1770-1918, Christopher Davies (Publishers) Ltd, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Once in a while, I peered in the mirror looking at the window behind me, somehow expecting to see a patrol scouring the neighbourhood, looking for the escapée.
ref: 1996, Joseph Peretz, The Endless Wait: A Memoir, Lugus Publications, →ISBN, page 113:
text: They ran over the Sioux escapées with their horses, then beat them to death with their war clubs and tomahawks.[…]The rest of the support group gradually gathered around the relieved and celebrating escapées.
ref: 2011, Rick Ruja, Moccasin Tracks: A Novel about Survival and Heroism among a Band of Crow Indians in the Old West, Xlibris, →ISBN, pages 210, 317:
text: Sergio, the escapée from Chile, was performing in the town square.
ref: 2012, Jorge Sotirios, Lonesome George: A South American Odyssey, Big Sky Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Meantime, he had met a divorced woman, born in the UK, but whose family had arrived as East Asian escapées from Uganda during the 1970s.
ref: 2014, Paul Kennedy, Runaway Girl, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 226:
text: Most escapées, indeed thousands, had headed for the main crossing points around Lake Neusiedl, or Lake Fertód as it was called in Hungarian, and Andau.[…]The border was continually patrolled by armed frontier guards and Soviet soldiers, now intent on arresting any likely escapées.
ref: 2016, Eibhlín Mac Máighistir Gede, Antoinette Walker, Liffey Green, Danube Blue: The Musical Life and Loves of László Gede, Merrion Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of escapee.