Régence

[ree-juh ns; French rey-zhahns]

adjective (often lowercase)

noting or pertaining to the style of French furnishings and decoration of c1700–20, in which a transition occurs from the Baroque style of Louis XIV to the Rococo of Louis XV.

Origin of Régence

< French, Middle French < Medieval Latin rēgentia regency

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Examples from the Web for regence

Historical Examples of regence

An unconscionably long time when you have a delicious sole à la Regence getting cold on your hands.
Through the Wall
Cleveland Moffett
She took a chicken wing, and began to eat it daintily, together with one of those rolls called in Normandy "Regence."
Original Short Stories of Maupassant, Volume 1
Guy de Maupassant
She took the wing of a fowl and began to eat it daintily with one of those little rolls which they call "Regence" in Normandy.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8)
Guy de Maupassant