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Windrush, n.
Brit. |ˈwɪndrʌʃ|, U.S. |ˈwɪn(d)ˌrəʃ|
[‹ the name of the Empire Windrush, a British ship which carried 500 Caribbean immigrants to London in 1948.]
Caribbean and Brit. attrib. Of, designating, or relating to the period of immigration from the Caribbean to Britain in the late 1940s and the 1950s; spec. designating those immigrants who arrived on the Empire Windrush in 1948. Freq. in Windrush generation.
1948Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 2 July 1/2 (headline), 148 ‘Windrush’ W. Indians get London jobs. 1988Economist (Nexis) 24 Sept. 142 [They] were determined to believe that things were getting better. For those blacks who have lived in Britain since the Windrush days, they deserve to. 1995Guardian 22 June ii. 8/4 Sam Selvon produced the classic novel of the ‘Windrush generation’ of post-war migrants from the Caribbean, The Lonely Londoners. 2002C. Williams Sugar & Slate 99 We are the dribs and drabs of the story with nothing so all embracing as the Windrush landmark. 2004New Nation 14 June Small Island has been summarised by some as a book about the Windrush generation. |