Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the neoclassic style in architecture, furniture, and decoration of the reign of Louis XVI.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An epithet designating the style of architecture and ornamental design which prevailed in France in the reign of Louis XVI. (1774-92), distinguished by a return to greater simplicity than under Louis XV., and not seldom by the aim to reproduce classical architectural forms, as in parts of furniture, etc.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Part of the legend of Syrie Maugham is that she would "pickle" and bleach rare antiques, such as black lacquer Coromandel screens, or valuable Louis Seize pieces, stripping them until they were as pale as sun-blanched bones.
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Certainly, as her palatial limestone-fronted, Louis Seize style abode on 94th Street attest, Ms. Rohatyn is, as some say, loaded.
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Marie Antoinette was not his wife, but an aristocrat who married Louis Seize and was guillotined for it in 1793. posted by Bystander | 8:30 AM
Back to School Lads Bystander 2009
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Marie Antoinette was not his wife, but an aristocrat who married Louis Seize and was guillotined for it in 1793. posted by Bystander | 8:30 AM
Archive 2009-10-01 Bystander 2009
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She had her heart set on that Louis Seize escritoire -- but she'll have to make do without it.
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Louis Seize, or else the Place de la Révolution, or else the Place de la Concorde (who can say why?) — which, I am told, is to run bad wine during certain hours tomorrow, and there WOULD have been a review of the National Guards and the Line — only, since the
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It is true that there is very little marble and no footmen in powder and breeches, but there is nevertheless an undoubted air of grandeur about the high rooms and Louis Seize furniture, and there is a footman.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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Very pretty, in her Louis Seize gown of pink brocade, and a Rembrandt hat with a long white feather (Jacquemin, who remained below, had already written down the description in his note-book), the little Baroness entered Marsa's room like a whirlwind, embracing the young girl, and going into ecstasy over her beauty.
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And, although the general shape and arrangement of the parts of a useful object is dominated by its purpose, if it is also beautiful -- a Louis Seize chair, for example -- there is, besides,
The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker
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Two of those graceful chairs of the Louis Seize period and a small footstool completed the furnishing of this room.
The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe
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