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Lafitte

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Laf·fite or La·fitte  (l-ft, lä-), Jean 1780?-1826?
French pirate leader who aided U.S. troops in the War of 1812 in return for an official pardon for his crimes.
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Noun1.LafitteLafitte - French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)
Jean Laffite, Jean Lafitte, Laffite


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I knew a gentleman who prided himself all his life on being a connoisseur of Lafitte.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
I am by no means naturally nervous, and the very few glasses of Lafitte which I had sipped served to embolden me no little, so that I felt nothing of trepidation, but merely uplifted my eyes with a leisurely movement, and looked carefully around the room for the intruder.
The Angel of the Odd by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
= various French noble families; a bouder = silent; Jacques Lafitte = French financier (1767-1844) who supported the 1830 July Revolution; Bourse = stock exchange}
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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