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YSL

YSL proper noun: yves Saint-Laurent (1936–2008), a French fashion designer. Also the abbreviation of Young Socialist League.

Proper noun

YSL

  1. Yves Saint-Laurent (1936–2008), a French fashion designer.
    • YSL, as he is often called, is equally capable of casual, aristocratic cruelty and earthy, spontaneous tenderness, and when you study his face it can be hard to distinguish boredom from rapture. […] YSL’s most loyal friend, his lover and business partner, is Pierre Bergé (Jérémie Renier), whose...2015 May 7, A. O. Scott, “Review: ‘Saint Laurent,’ Beautiful People, High Fashion and Career at Its Pinnacle”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2019
  2. Yves Saint Laurent, a French fashion house.

Also used as

YSL is also the abbreviation of Young Socialist League.

Questions about YSL

What does YSL mean?
YSL means yves Saint-Laurent (1936–2008), a French fashion designer.
What part of speech is YSL?
YSL is a proper noun.

Words near YSL in the dictionary

  1. YSGs
  2. Ysgubor Newydd
  3. yshent
  4. yshone
  5. YSK
  6. YSL
  7. yslain
  8. yslaked
  9. YSO
  10. ysonge
  11. YSOs

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