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Saint-Louis

[French san-lwee]
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noun
  1. a seaport in and the former capital of Senegal, at the mouth of the Senegal River.
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St. Louis

[seynt loo-is]
noun
  1. a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi.
  2. a river in NE Minnesota, flowing generally S to Lake Superior at Duluth. 160 miles (257 km) long.
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Louis IX

noun
  1. Saint,1214?–70, king of France 1226–70.
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Louis IX

noun
  1. known as Saint Louis. 1214–70, king of France (1226–70): led the Sixth Crusade (1248–54) and was held to ransom (1250); died at Tunis while on another crusade
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Saint-Louis

noun usually abbreviated to: St-Louis
  1. a port in NW Senegal, on an island at the mouth of the Senegal River: the first French settlement in W Africa (1689); capital of Senegal until 1958. Pop: 183 000 (2005 est)
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st louis in Culture

St. Louis

[(saynt looh-uhs)]

The largest city in Missouri.

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Note

Known as the “Gateway to the West” because of its importance as a staging area for wagon trains in the nineteenth century. The Gateway Arch, made of steel and several hundred feet high, stands in St. Louis in commemoration of this fact.
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