Louis Quinze

American

[kanz, kanz] / kænz, kɛ̃z /

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 British

/ 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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Etymology

Origin of Louis Quinze

1850–55; < French: Louis XV

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Louis Quinze

In this rich compendium, Novelist Mordecai Richler attempts to lift humorists out of the high chair and onto the Louis Quinze.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the family quarters, Jackie will bring some of her own delicate Louis Quinze furniture, her books and paintings.

From Time Magazine Archive

So the officials selected another Louis Quinze chair for the signing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through this aperture the delegations would file, one at a time, to sit in gold-backed Louis Quinze chairs.

From Time Magazine Archive

To-day the mental coffee was as strong and as perfumed as that of which she had shortly before partaken in her lovely little Louis Quinze boudoir, after she had come in from her bath.

From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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