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  Louvre

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  a national museum in Paris, France, since 1793: formerly a royal palace.

louvre

¹ American  

[loo-ver] / ˈlu vər /

noun

Chiefly British.

louvred, louvring

1. louver.

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Louvre ² American  

[loo-vr^uh] / ˈlu vrə /

noun

1. a national museum in Paris, France, since 1793: formerly a royal palace.

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Louvre ¹ British  

/ luvrə /

noun

1. the national museum and art gallery of France, in Paris: formerly a royal palace, begun in 1546; used for its present purpose since 1793

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louvre ² British  

/ ˈluːvə /

noun

1. 1. any of a set of horizontal parallel slats in a door or window, sloping outwards to throw off rain and admit air

   2. Also called: louvre boards. the slats together with the frame supporting them

2. architect a lantern or turret that allows smoke to escape

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Louvre Cultural  

1. An art museum in Paris, formerly a royal palace. The Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and thousands of other works of art are exhibited there.

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Etymology

Origin of louvre

C14: from Old French lovier, of obscure origin

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Example Sentences

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louvre Louvre louvred

The more-or-lessness is the point: they lived as if they had louvre blinds of managed discretion around themselves, which could be closed or opened at will.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016

"Louer" is the modern word "louvre" - meaning vents in a building.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2016

Here they used to swing the bells, and the place was called the lantern or louvre; thence the octangular spire arose easily and naturally.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various

The court of the louvre is one of the finest in Europe, and its art galleries are among the richest in the world.

From The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany by George H. Heffner

The roof is lofty and pointed, and is surmounted by a louvre or lantern, with a vane.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

One of the most high-profile such incidents was in October last year, when France's crown jewels were stolen in broad daylight from the Louvre in Paris.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The British Museum owns another 2,600 works with similar titles, while the Louvre Museum has at least 802.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Lucas’ comments came after his friend and co-host Queen Latifah noted to the cheering crowd that, “Paris has the Louvre, New York has the Met and now L.A. has the artistic equal.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

During a recent trip to the Louvre, Melia says she caught herself steering her two children to paintings her father admired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

When the Louvre is founded after the French Revolution at the end of the 1700s, the Mona Lisa isn’t considered the finest Renaissance painting in the collection.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

He then thought of installing the faux ventilators and hired a metalworker to fabricate a number of six-by-fourteen-inch louvred screens.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

She would stand on a chair in each of the designated rooms and reach up to fit a louvred screen into the opening in the ceiling that Foos had made with a power saw.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

The cupola was constructed of white pine, and consists of a square box in which is mounted an octagonal compartment with louvred sides.

From The Fairfax County Courthouse by Ross De Witt Netherton

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