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

Besides Louis Seize, other crowned heads would willingly have helped America as against the old "Termagant of the Seas," had not the idea been too illogical.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

It was a large Louis Seize pendule, and he knew it to be genuine of his own knowledge; he had bought it.

From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Bennett, Arnold

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

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