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Definition of Lafitte

1. Noun. French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lafitte

Literary usage of Lafitte

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1895)
"JEAN lafitte. in his boat to inspect the stranger, from whose side, as he was rowed along, he beheld a pinnace put off with a white flag in the bow and the ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"lafitte left Galveston for good, but continued his depredations upon Spanish shipping ... In 1820 Dr. James Long visited Galveston Island to induce lafitte, ..."

3. The Louisiana Historical Quarterly by Henry Plauché Dart, 1858- ed, John Dymond, d. 1922 ed, Louisiana Historical Society (1922)
"The Sketch of lafitte taken from the Review of 1851, is the most complete ... At the junction of the Rigolets and Bayou Sauvage lafitte built a platform or ..."

4. New Orleans; the Place and the People by Grace Elizabeth King (1895)
"In an affair of honour between two noted citizens, Pierre lafitte was selected as the ... His consenting, therefore, to act with lafitte, was accepted as ..."

5. Conversations with M. Thiers, M. Guizot, and Other Distinguished Persons by Nassau William Senior (1878)
"I met in the evening M. lafitte, who belongs to the party of the ... lafitte.—Exactly so; and so far as this Government approaches that model it is good. ..."

6. Life of Andrew Jackson by James Parton (1879)
"THE DEEP GAME OF JEAN lafitte. A FAIR breeze wafted the Sophia so swiftly across the Gulf that, on the morning of the 3d of September, she was firing signal ..."

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