All 6 Uses

refugee
in
Fever, 1793
(Edited)

I've heard stories of a fever among the Santo Domingan refugees.
p. 20.6

refugees = people who fled their homeland
"It is not just the refugees," the doctor said.
p. 20.8
This season it's those cursed refugees.
p. 38.8
Those filthy refugees and creatures who live in the crowded hovels by the river, they're always sick with something.
p. 51.1
As refugees from the French Revolution and from the slave revolts in the French West Indies poured into Philadelphia, French fashion and language became very popular.
p. 248.1 *
The refugees opened dancing academies, fencing salons, and hairdressing parlors.
p. 248.1

Definitions:

(1) (refugee)
someone who has fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation; or related to such people
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)