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单词 louis quatorze
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Louis Quatorze

[ kuh-tawrz; French ka-tawrz ]
/ kəˈtɔrz; French kaˈtɔrz /

adjective

noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
Compare Régence.

Origin of Louis Quatorze

1850–55; <French: Louis XIV

Words nearby Louis Quatorze

Louis IX, Louis, Joe, Louis Napoleon, Louis of Nassau, Louis Philippe, Louis Quatorze, Louis Quinze, Louis Seize, Louis Treize, Louis V, Louis VI
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Example sentences from the Web for Louis Quatorze

  • The screen was an old one, of gilt Spanish leather, stamped and wrought with a rather florid Louis-Quatorze pattern.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray|Oscar Wilde
  • So I walked in and sat down in a pink-and-white embroidered Louis-Quatorze chair.

    When Patty Went to College|Jean Webster

British Dictionary definitions for Louis Quatorze

Louis Quatorze
/ (kəˈtɔːz) /

adjective

of or relating to the baroque style of furniture, decoration, and architecture of the time of Louis XIV of France and characterized by massive forms and heavy ornamentation
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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