escapée
/ɪskˌeɪpˈi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "These two men are described as monsters in human form, and the worst of the desperate escapées."
- "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."
- "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."
- "The specimens shown were evidently escapées from cultivation."
- "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."
- "She had several English-speaking escapées in her house one night when the German S.S. came to search."