escapée

plural escapées

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of escapee.

   The specimens shown were evidently escapées from cultivation.

   1914, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, volume 38, page 399

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   These two men are described as monsters in human form, and the worst of the desperate escapées.

   1876, William Brackley Wildey, Australasia and the Oceanic Region with Some Notice of New Guinea, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide: George Robertson, page 399

   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.

   1884 June 5, Jules P. Roche, “French Criminals”, in Federal Council of Australasia. Session of 1886., published 27 January 1886, page 38

   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.

   1894, T. A. Coghlan, “The Birthplaces of the People”, in Census of 1891. Statistician’s Report. General Report on the Eleventh Census of New South Wales, Sydney: Charles Potter, page 183, column 2

   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.

   1914, William Gunn, The Gospel in Futuna: With Chapters on the Islands of the New Hebrides, the People, Their Customs, Religious Beliefs, Etc., page 282

   She had several English-speaking escapées in her house one night when the German S.S. came to search.

   1946, Katharine Roberts, And the Bravest of These, page 273