L'Enfant
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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A developer plans a residential conversion for the building near the capital city’s L’Enfant Plaza.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
For customers that want a 2023 cherry blossom SmarTrip card, those will be available from machines at the L’Enfant Plaza, Navy Yard, and Metro Center rail stations.
From Washington Times • Mar. 11, 2023
The Mall is a symbolic landscape — first conceived by Pierre L’Enfant in the 18th century, and revised and extended under the McMillan Plan developed by the Senate Park Commission more than a century later.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022
No one has seriously proposed developing this site in recent memory and perhaps not since the city plan was laid out by Pierre L’Enfant in 1791, and for good reason.
From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2022
“You’ll learn when you get there. When Captain L’Enfant requested you, he assured me you wouldn’t let us down.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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