[laf-ee-et, laf-ey-, lah-fee-, -fey-; Fr. la fa-yet] 
| Ma⋅rie Ma⋅de⋅leine Pioche de la Vergne [ma-ree maduh-len pyawsh duh la ver-nyuh ] , Comtesse de, 1634–93, French novelist. |
[laf-ee-et, laf-ey-, lah-fee-, -fey-; for 1 also Fr. la-fa-yet] | 1. | Ma⋅rie Jo⋅seph Paul Yves Roch Gil⋅bert du Mo⋅tier [ma-ree zhaw-zef pawl eev rawk zheel-ber dy maw-tyey] , Marquis de. Also, La Fayette. 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. 81,961. |
| 3. | a city in W Indiana, on the Wabash River. 43,001. |
| 4. | a town in W California. 20,879. |
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