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Tuileries

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Tuileries [ˈtwiːlərɪ (French) tɥilri]
n
(Placename) a former royal residence in Paris: begun in 1564 by Catherine de' Medici and burned in 1871 by the Commune; site of the Tuileries Gardens (a park near the Louvre)
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Noun1.TuileriesTuileries - palace and royal residence built for Catherine de Medicis in 1564 and burned down in 1871; all that remains today are the formal gardens
Tuileries Palace
capital of France, City of Light, French capital, Paris - the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce
2.TuileriesTuileries - formal gardens next to the Louvre in Paris
Tuileries Gardens
capital of France, City of Light, French capital, Paris - the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce


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Then he kept silence, folded his arms tightly across his breast, and took up his station under the portico which serves as an avenue of communication between the garden and the court-yard of the Tuileries.
Vendetta by de Balzac, Honore View in context
His heart was full of pity, but he took care to keep his eyes fixed on the trees in the Tuileries gardens, lest he should see the monster's face.
The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context
But the cream- coloured house (supposed to be modelled on the private hotels of the Parisian aristocracy) was there as a visible proof of her moral courage; and she throned in it, among pre-Revolutionary furniture and souvenirs of the Tuileries of Louis Napoleon (where she had shone in her middle age), as placidly as if there were nothing peculiar in living above Thirty-fourth Street, or in having French windows that opened like doors instead of sashes that pushed up.
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