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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

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

I will go straight to the louvre; I will give in my resignation as captain of the king's Musketeers to take a lieutenancy in the cardinal's Guards, and if he refuses me, MORBLEU!

From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre

The roof is of stone and is surmounted by a louvre, through which the smoke escaped during the great culinary preparations in the days of the abbey's prosperity.

From What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association by Home, Gordon

The smoke from the fire, winding its way leisurely around the interior, finally found its way through an outlet or louvre in the roof or through windows at the eaves level.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee

The world's most visited museum, the Louvre, said it was bringing forward its closing time from Wednesday to Saturday from 18:00 to 16:00 local time.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

JR has used it often, as a massive-scale magical deception to make the Louvre Pyramid “disappear” into the old Louvre, and opening up an imaginary subterranean world below the Eiffel Tower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026

At the Louvre, the impulse is not to revere Franklin, gazing out from inside his vitrine, but to approach him—to bend down, to look him in the eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The Louvre said "The proposal establishes an elegant link between the city, the palace, and the museum."

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

It wasn’t because they suspected him; they were interviewing everyone who’d worked at the Louvre.

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 Netherton, Ross De Witt