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louis
1[ loo-ee; French lwee ]
Louis
2[ loo-is loo-ee ]
noun
- Joe Joseph Louis Barrow, 1914–81, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1937–49.
- a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “loud battle.”
Louis
1/ ˈluːɪs /
noun
- LouisJoe19141981MUSSPORT AND GAMES: boxer Joe, real name Joseph Louis Barrow, nicknamed the Brown Bomber. 1914–81, US boxer; world heavyweight champion (1937–49)
louis
2/ ˈluːɪ; lwi /
noun
- short for louis d'or
Word History and Origins
Origin of louis1
Example Sentences
When my consciousness finally floated back to the chimney that was my body, I walked outside to watch the soft, peach sunset as Louis Armstrong crooned from portable speakers, serenading me out of the psilocybin’s final moments.
In this superb speculative novel, Spufford imagines that Manifest Destiny hit a roadblock in the Midwest: The region around St. Louis isn’t Missouri and Illinois but Cahokia, ruled by the Native tribe there.
What Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote almost one hundred years ago best captures this danger.
The Dodgers have been linked in trade rumors to big names such as St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado and Milwaukee Brewers reliever Devin Williams; the kind of hypothetical moves that could cause a larger roster shake-up.
He also attended several of the pop star’s shows and gushed about his “massively talented” girlfriend during a November appearance on “The Louis Theroux Podcast.”
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