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runagate
[ ruhn-uh-geyt ]
noun
- a fugitive or runaway.
- a vagabond or wanderer.
runagate
/ ˈrʌnəˌɡeɪt /
noun
- archaic.
- a vagabond, fugitive, or renegade
- ( as modifier )
a runagate priest
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of runagate1
Example Sentences
Bettina Scott, who lives with her odd, controlling mother, is at the center of a number of family mysteries in her village of Runagate, a place where you’ll find “roses planted in wire-fenced gardens on the buried corpses of roadside kangaroos.”
His great-great-great-grandfather Scipio, a runaway slave, intended to escape from Kentucky alone but wound up trying to help another runagate, a pregnant woman named Abby, cross the Ohio River.
The last work on the program was also the most impressive: “Runagate, Runagate,” by Wendell Logan, sets Robert Hayden’s flamboyant poem about a runaway slave to music of wild ferocity, sobriety, eeriness and mordant wit.
"Well, I must say Marmaduke might have remembered that he had other relatives besides that runagate son," grumbled the squire.
The room, stiflingly close, lay in semi-darkness; on the bed sprawled the young runagate, dead asleep, his arms tossed wide.
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