Lafayette

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

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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.
a city in S Louisiana.
a city in W Indiana, on the Wabash River.
a town in W California.

Lafayette

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

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Harris, a receiver out of Mississippi, was Nabers’ high school quarterback in Lafayette, La.

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He ended with a declaration, “Lafayette, we are here.”

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She began her career as a teenager singing in local clubs with groups such as The Lafayettes and The Independents.

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Trump's second inauguration day will begin with a service at St John's Church, Lafayette Square, a historic Washington DC church, followed by tea at the White House.

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Willis changed his mind after Trump forcefully cleared out a Black Lives Matter protest in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square.

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