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Louis Quinze

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Louis Quinze  (kz)
adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the rococo style in architecture, furniture, and decoration of the reign of Louis XV.
[French.]
Louis Quinze [kænz]
adj
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) of or relating to the rococo style of the furniture, decoration, and architecture of the time of Louis XV of France (1710-74; king 1715-74)


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Slowly he threaded his way amongst the elegant Louis Quinze furniture, examining as though for the first time the beautiful old tapestry, the Sevres china, the Chippendale table, which was priceless, the exquisite portraits painted by Greuze, and the mysterious green twilights and grey dawns of Corot.
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In the center of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps.
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