Lafayette

[laf-ee-et, laf-ey-, lah-fee-, -fey-, la-fa-yet]

noun

1. Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Marquis de. Also 1757–1834, French soldier, statesman, and liberal leader, who served in the American Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Washington, and took a leading part in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830.

2. a city in S Louisiana.

3. a city in W Indiana, on the Wabash River.

4. a town in W California.

Lafayette

/ lafajɛt /

noun

1. Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier (mari ʒozɛf pɔl iv rɔk ʒilbɛr dy mɔtje), Marquis de Lafayette. 1757–1834, French general and statesman. He fought on the side of the colonists in the War of American Independence and, as commander of the National Guard (1789–91; 1830), he played a leading part in the French Revolution and the revolution of 1830

2. Marie-Madeleine (marimadlɛn), Comtesse de Lafayette. 1634–93, French novelist, noted for her historical romance La Princesse de Clèves (1678)

Example Sentences

French retailer Galeries Lafayette is the latest to try its luck, opening its first Indian store on Sunday: a sprawling five-floor outlet in Mumbai, the country's financial capital.

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Lafayette Square in the first term, the use of federal officers in Portland, the rhetoric of “enemy combatants” applied to citizens.

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Some say the greater possibility is we will be relocated to larger offices off Lafayette Park.

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A staffer told me there’s a fence around nearby Lafayette Park.

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Nicole Waknine, an attorney who works on nearby Lafayette Street, said she saw protesters clashing with federal agents and blocking their vehicles as agents attempted to move down the street.

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