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Louis Quinze
[ kanz; French kanz ]
adjective
- noting or pertaining to the rococo style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the early and mid-18th century, characterized by fantasy, lightness, elegance, and comfort.
Louis Quinze
/ kænz /
adjective
- of or relating to the rococo style of the furniture, decoration, and architecture of the time of Louis XV of France
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Origin of Louis Quinze1
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Example Sentences
Upper East Side apartments contain Louis Quinze rooms bedecked in furniture that appears to be made of solid gold.
Upon the veranda-stoop of the Louis Quinze stood a man of apparently about twenty-eight years of age.
He approached Valmond, who was moving on towards the Louis Quinze, with appreciation of a time for disappearing.
All the soul cramped in the small body was showing in his eyes, as on that day when he had sung before the Louis Quinze.
As he sat alone in the quiet dusk of his room at the Louis Quinze waiting for Parpon, there came a tap at his door.
In this the equal delicacy of the sentiment and of the painting combine to effect a little masterpiece of Louis Quinze art.
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