Louis Seize

American  

[sez] / sɛz /

adjective

1. 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.

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Louis Seize British  

/ sɛz /

adjective

1. 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

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Etymology

Origin of Louis Seize

1890–95; < French: Louis XVI

Example Sentences

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Louis Seize

First of all, she has redecorated the apartment with lots of Louis Seize pieces and hung chandeliers even in the bathrooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, it doesn't matter whether it's Empire, or Louis Seize, or Henri Quatre, or Chinois.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert

At breakfast the next morning he was charming, wrote me a cheque for the money, sitting in a gilt chair and writing on a Louis Seize secretaire.

From Aliens by McFee, William

Plancine's swimming eyes looked down, looked upon a litter of perished rags of paper, and, lying in the midst of the rubbish, an ancient stained and cockled miniature of a powdered Louis Seize coquette.

From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph

On the spot where Louis Seize Died, they set me, meaningless, With my secret which outweighs Cycles of forgetfulness.

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Lee, Agnes