Louis Seize

[ sez ]

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France at the end of the 18th century, continuing the lightness of the Louis Quinze period with a stricter adherence to classical models.

Louis Seize

/ sɛz /

adjective

1. of or relating to the style of furniture, decoration, and architecture of the time of Louis XVI of France, belonging to the late French rococo and early neoclassicism

Word History and Origins

Origin of Louis Seize¹

1890–95; < French: Louis XVI

Example Sentences

In brief, then, I will tell you that he was the younger son of an old and noble house, and, for seven years, page to Louis Seize.

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An old noble—page to Louis Seize—a royalist soldier in La Vend�e,—how could I think otherwise?

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All that the unfortunate Louis Seize ever did, or suffered to be done—all that the banished Charles Dix ever threatened to do—never "roared so loud, and thundered in the index," as does this 43 deed without a name about to be perpetrated by King Louis-Philippe the First.

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These are figures which send the thoughts back for fifty years; and seen in the act of assisting at a mass for the souls of Louis Seize and his queen, produce a powerful effect on the imagination.

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Besides Louis Seize, other crowned heads would willingly have helped America as against the old "Termagant of the Seas," had not the idea been too illogical.

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