Louis Seize

[ sez ]

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adjective

noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France at the end of the 18th century, continuing the lightness of the Louis Quinze period with a stricter adherence to classical models.

Louis Seize

/ sɛz /

of or relating to the style of furniture, decoration, and architecture of the time of Louis XVI of France, belonging to the late French rococo and early neoclassicism

1890–95; < French: Louis XVI

The ceiling, too, was pink, and the Louis Seize furniture was lacquered pink.

Bakkus, with an air Louis Seize, implied that one, two or three hundred francs were as dirt in his fingers.

The name of Malesherbes, the intrepid defender of Louis Seize, was mentioned by our friend.

There was silence in the gaily-tinted, flower-filled salon, save for the tick of an absurd Louis Seize clock on the mantel.

Two of those graceful chairs of the Louis Seize period and a small footstool completed the furnishing of this room.

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