engages
Example Sentences
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In France, for example, writers can receive extra points for being engagés.
From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2019
It is the opinion of some French anti-slavery writers that the engagés might have tilled the soil of Hayti to this day, if they had labored for themselves alone.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various
Another source of recruits for the freebooters were the indentured servants or engagés.
From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Haring, Clarence Henry
Their French partners and engagés shared this feeling, especially as the French crown had been first in the field with a royal charter.
From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian
Certain French Canadians, old-time engagés of the fur posts, now become habitants, landowners, on their way home from Sunday chapel, hastened to summon others.
From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson
