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Lafayette

Lafayette

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A city in south central Louisiana known for its Cajun culture
  • proper noun
  • /læfəˈjɛt/
: Lafayette
  • I'm from Lafayette, Louisiana, a city famous for its Acadian culture.
  • Lafayette, Louisiana
  • Lafayette Parish

Mom and daddy, all my family is from Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, that whole area.

Examples

  • Soedel has been a researcher and educator at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., for 30 years.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Lafayette Park.

    First Dog (2010)

  • Special thanks to students, teachers, and staff in the Lafayette School Corporation for their support of this research.

    Academic text (2012)

  • I'm from Lafayette, Louisiana, see.

    North Hollywood (2021)

  • From Emory University Law School in Atlanta, he went directly to Lafayette to live out his country lawyer dreams.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Steven Belletto is an associate professor of English at Lafayette College.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The 1994 contest will be held at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Mom and daddy, all my family is from Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, that whole area.

    The 85 South Comedy Show

  • On Friday night, Tippy and I drove fifteen miles into West Lafayette to go to the Stabilizer.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Curiosity seekers arrived in Lafayette Township for the express purpose of driving up and down Bray Road in hopes of seeing a hairy monster.

    The Bray Road Beast (2018)

Surface Forms

Lafayette main

Etymology

Lafayette comes from the French family name La Fayette, which originally meant 'the little beech' or a small beech wood. The city in Louisiana was named for the famous French general Marquis de Lafayette, so the place name keeps that family name.