St. Laurent

[san law-rahn]

noun

1. Louis Stephen 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.

2. Yves (Mathieu) 1936–2008, French fashion designer.

3. a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, W of Montreal.

Example Sentences

At the time, fantasy and costume perfected by French designer Yves St. Laurent ruled womenswear.

From Los Angeles Times

St. Laurent thrilled his admirers with pants suits and evening tuxedos from the early 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times

Bhatia is one of the senior authors of the new study, along with J. Christopher Love, the Raymond A. and Helen E. St. Laurent Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard and Viktor Adalsteinsson, director of the Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics at the Broad Institute.

From Science Daily

She first performed as Carmen St. Laurent, finding community with other sex workers at the scene’s various houses.

From Los Angeles Times

And among the products bearing the name that they successfully have squashed like so many grapes are a perfume by luxury fashion brand Yves St. Laurent, a gold-hued iPhone and a champagne-flavored yogurt from Sweden.

From Washington Post