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noun

Louvre, Louver n. (Arch.)

A small lantern. See Lantern, 2 (a). (Written also lover, loover, lovery, and luffer)

Same as louver boards, below

A set of slats resembling louver boards, arranged in a vertical row and attached at each slat end to a frame inserted in or part of a door or window; the slats may be made of wood, plastic, or metal, and the angle of inclination of the slats may be adjustable simultaneously, to allow more or less light or air into the enclosure.

Louver boards or Louver boarding, the sloping boards set to shed rainwater outward in openings which are to be left otherwise unfilled; as belfry windows, the openings of a louver, etc.

Louver work, slatted work.

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Etymology of 'Louvre'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Louvre" Quotes from Famous Books

... them first in Paris, at the Louvre, fashioned of snow-white marble. They were the shoulders of Venus. ...

— The Devil - A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience • Joseph O'Brien

... July the king's forces were defeated at Marston Moor. On the 14th of July the queen escaped from Falmouth to Brest. After some rest at the baths of Bourbon, she went on to Paris, where she was lodged in the Louvre, and well cared for. Jermyn was still her treasurer, her minister, and the friend for whose counsel she ...

— Cowley's Essays • Abraham Cowley

... accuracy and artistic skill the many varying effects of colour that are produced as the climbing sun casts its early beams on the giant larder and its masses of food—effects of colour which, to quote a famous saying of the first Napoleon, show that "the markets of Paris are the Louvre of the people" ...

— The Fat and the Thin • Emile Zola

... was an exhibition of POSES- PLASTIQUES, the subjects being chosen from celebrated pictures in the Louvre. Theatrical costumiers, under the command of a noted painter, were brought from Paris. The ladies of the court were carefully rehearsed, and the whole thing was very perfectly and very beautifully done. All the English ladies were assigned parts. But, as nearly all these depended less upon ...

— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke

... excursions, soirees, visits to the operas and theatres, walks on the Boulevards, and in the galleries of the Louvre, ended at last. The evening before we were to set out for the South of France, I was at my lodgings, unpacking and repacking the luggage which I had left in Joseph's care during my absence among the Alps; I was melancholy, dissatisfied with the dissipations ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various

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