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

Every environment suggests or shapes the stories that are set there; even were the plots identical, a mystery set in Amarillo, for example, would play differently than one set in Duluth or Lafayette.

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The company also plans to open shops at Galeries Lafayette department stores in the cities of Dijon, Reims, Grenoble, Angers and Limoges.

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Glenn has used questions to prompt immediate executive action, such as the removal of the White House Peace Vigil tarp — a round-the-clock protest for global disarmament that stood in Lafayette Square since 1981.

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He began his sophomore season on Saturday as the backup quarterback in Columbia’s 38-14 loss to Lafayette.

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The morning he died, Orozco learned he’d been approved for a trip to nearby Lafayette Park to train for an athletic competition between different reentry facilities, according to his wife.

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