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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

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 Gordon Home

A dance where the dancers of the different sexes stand opposite each other, instead of side by side, as in the minuet, rigadoon, louvre, &c. and now corruptly called a country dance.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

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

A bevy of the problems that the Louvre now faces date from its most recent reinvention, the so-called Grand Louvre project, associated with the presidency of Francois Mitterrand, and marked by Chinese-American architect I.M.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

France is in crisis mode and so is the country’s signature cultural institution, the Louvre Museum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

In Paris, where many shops had boarded up windows to prevent looting, and the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay museums shut for the day, the main demonstration passed off largely peacefully.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

But in the capital, leading museums including the Louvre will be closed on Saturday while the Art Basel art fair is being cut short.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Louvre employed almost three hundred people, and many more had worked there or might know how its paintings were hung.

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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