la|fa|yette

la|fa|yette
la|fa|yette «LAF ee EHT, LAH fee-», noun.
1. a small edible fish with spiny fins, living in the waters of the eastern coast of the United States.
2. an oval-shaped fish with a deeply split tail and unelevated fins, abundant along the eastern coast of America.
[American English < Marquis de Lafayette, 1757-1834, a French general who aided the American Revolution]

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