All 4 Uses
refugee
in
The Handmaid's Tale
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- I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.
Chpt 35refugee = someone who fled their homeland
- I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.
Chpt 35 *refugees = people who fled their homeland
- This would have been wise, as the Canada of that time did not wish to antagonize its powerful neighbor, and there were roundups and extraditions of such refugees.†
Chpt 47
- More than one incautious refugee was known to receive a hand, ear, or foot, vacuum-packed express, hidden in, for instance, a tin of coffee.†
Chpt 47refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
Definitions:
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(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)