All 3 Uses of
refugee
in
The Joy Luck Club
- She wore the same brown-checked Chinese dress until the Refugee Welcome Society gave her two handme-down dresses, all too large in sizes for American women.
Chpt 2 *refugee = someone who fled their homeland
- Shanghai people with north-water peasants, bankers with barbers, rickshaw pullers with Burma refugees.
Chpt 2refugees = people who fled their homeland
- They were selling them at the door, only five dollars each, to raise money for the Refugee Scholarship Fund.
Chpt 14refugee = related to people who fled their homeland
Definition:
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(refugee) someone who has fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation; or related to such people