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remittance fellow
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person living in Canada on money remitted from his family in the Old Country, usually to insure that he did not return home to become a source of embarrassment.
See: remittance man
Quotations
1910
"Once me an' a young remittance feller went out chasin' a mine."