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Marquis de Lafayette

noun

French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834). Synonyms: La Fayette, Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier.

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... gentleman was fond of buying slaves whom he would set free after teaching them a trade. Long years after, one of his old slaves boasted of having driven the Marquis de Lafayette to visit his old mistress, Mrs. Catherine Foxall, on his visit ...

— A Portrait of Old George Town • Grace Dunlop Ecker

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