Refugee, a name given to persons who have fled from religious or political persecution in their own country, and taken refuge in another, especially to Flemish refugees during the persecution by Alva in the Low Countries, and to French Protestants who fled to England in or after 1685, when Louis XIV. of France revoked the Edict of Nantes. See HUGUENOTS, EXTRADITION, POLITICAL OFFENCES.
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