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Lafayette
Lafayette La`fa`yette", n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The dollar fish. (b) A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.
Lafayette
Dollar Dol"lar, n. [D. daalder, LG. dahler, G. thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, i. e., a piece of money first coined, about the year 1518, in the valley (G. thal) of St. Joachim, in Bohemia. See Dale.] 1. (a) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains. (b) A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined. Note: Previous to 1837 the silver dollar had a larger amount of alloy, but only the same amount of silver as now, the total weight being 416 grains. The gold dollar as a distinct coin was first made in 1849. The eagles, half eagles, and quarter eagles coined before 1834 contained 24.75 grains of gold and 2.25 grains of alloy for each dollar. 2. A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries. 3. The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values. Chop dollar. See under 9th Chop. Dollar fish (Zo["o]l.), a fish of the United States coast (Stromateus triacanthus), having a flat, roundish form and a bright silvery luster; -- called also butterfish, and Lafayette. See Butterfish. Trade dollar, a silver coin formerly made at the United States mint, intended for export, and not legal tender at home. It contained 378 grains of silver and 42 grains of alloy.

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- Lafaye is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jacques Lafaye (1930-2024), French historian Jean-Jacques Lafaye (born 1958), French writer...
- Sharon Lafaye Jones (May 4, 1956 – November 18, 2016) was an American soul and funk singer. She was the lead singer of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, a...
- Prosper Lafaye, originally Lafait (23 September 1806, Mont-Saint-Sulpice - 3 March 1883, Paris) was a French painter at the court of King Louis-Philippe...
- he took the middle name Lafaye on marriage to his first wife Regine Lafaye, some time before October 1978 when as Daniel Lafaye Edney aged 32 years, he...
- Jacques Lafaye (21 March 1930 – 8 July 2024) was a French historian who wrote on cultural and religious Spanish and Latin American history. His most po****r...
- John Carroll (born Julian La Faye; July 17, 1906 – April 24, 1979) was an American actor. Carroll was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He performed in several...
- Jean-Jacques Lafaye (born 27 March 1958) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. In 1990, Lafaye won the French...
- Wanda LaFaye Rogers, née Young (August 9, 1943 – December 15, 2021), was an American singer, known for being a member of the Motown all-female singing...
- al. 1998 Nicholson 2001, Carrasco 1982, Gillespie 1989, Florescano 2002 Lafaye 1987, Townsend 2003, Martínez 1980, Phelan 1970 The Nahuatl nouns compounded...
- " The conceptual headings are not organized into a taxonomy. Benjamin Lafaye's Synonymes français (1841) is organized around morphologically related families...