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Pierre

Modern French form of masc. proper name represented in Modern English by Peter (q.v.). The city in South Dakota, U.S., was named for Pierre Chouteau (1789-1865) who set up an Indian trading post here in 1837.

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Pierre, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota
Population (2000): 13876
Housing Units (2000): 5949
Land area (2000): 13.018802 sq. miles (33.718540 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.011871 sq. miles (0.030746 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 13.030673 sq. miles (33.749286 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49600
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 44.367966 N, 100.336378 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57501
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Pierre
Wikipedia
Pierre

Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter (it can also be a surname and a place name). Pierre originally means "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word "petros" meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). See also Peter.

Pierre (restaurant)

Pierre is a French cuisine restaurant situated on the 25th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Hong Kong which opened in October 2006 after a major renovation to the hotel. It is owned by Chef Pierre Gagnaire. It replaced Vong's (1997–2005), which replaced Pierrot (1979–1997), a classic French restaurant.

Pierre (penguin)

Pierre (February 16, 1983 – May 6, 2016) was an African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) who lived at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He was the first penguin (and likely the first bird) to have bald spots restored.

Pierre (disambiguation)

Pierre is a French given name.

Pierre may also refer to:

  • Pierre, South Dakota, the capital of South Dakota
  • Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, a novel by Herman Melville
  • Pierre (restaurant), a restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong
  • The Pierre, a luxury hotel in New York City
  • Pierre (A Cautionary Tale), a children's story by Maurice Sendak

Usage examples of "pierre".

It is my thought that those feathers may be a sign between Pierre Armagnac and Alfredo Morales.

The strategy of Alfredo Morales had won him the alliance of Pierre Armagnac.

Crafty to the extreme, Pierre Armagnac saw that he was necessary to Alfredo Morales.

To-night, plans would be made that would mean great wealth for Pierre Armagnac and his partner, Alfredo Morales.

You, Pierre Armagnac, with all your experience, with all your genius, will admire the schemes of Alfredo Morales.

Inoceramid clams and ammonites are especially common in some layers of the Pierre.

Su Ang stares intently at Pierre who is watching Boris as he raises the jug to his lips and begins to drink.

She glances round at Su Ang, Pierre, the other members of her primary team.

Mike Chancey says, and goes to tell Avogadro Pierre that he needs to look for a new line of work.

Pierre Marie, then Joseph Babinski and Georges Gilles de la Tourette, walked silently onto the stage in their long white aprons.

My depiction of the Salpetriere at that time is as close to the reality as I can make it, and the various disciples of Charcot, including Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Pierre Marie and Joseph Babinski, existed as described, as did Mile Cottard and Blanche Wittmann.

Les habitants de Carnac attribuent a ces pierres une origine tres differente et beaucoup plus merveilleuse.

At that time the Bishop Count of Beauvais was Pierre Cauchon of Reims, a great and pompous clerk of the University of Paris, which had elected him rector in 1403.

Pierre, the commander of Fort Le Boeuf, asked Washington, in rich diplomatic sarcasm, to descend to the particularization of facts, and the lithe figure disappeared behind the snows of the mountains only to come again across the mountains in the springtime with sterner questioning.

Pierre, who sometimes saw Pozzi at his club, that my old paramour was the head of surgery at Hospital Broca, where he often invited his friends to witness his gynecological operations.