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nounemancipee (plural emancipees)
plural emancipees
- rareSomeone freed from moral or conventional restraints; an emancipated woman.
Lydia Lensky, married to the young doctor, became with him a patriot and an emancipee.
1915, DH Lawrence, The Rainbow - rareSomeone who has been freed from bondage; a released slave or prisoner.
The convict emancipee Robert Alexander was given very specific instructions by Jinoor Jack of the Bidwell-Maap people on how and when to burn the bush in the Genoa Valley in East Gippsland.
2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 167
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Spanish liberto
- libertosomeone who has been freed from bondage; a released slave or prisoner
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