Louis Quinze

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the rococo style in architecture, furniture, and decoration of the reign of Louis XV.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. An epithet designating the style of French architecture and decoration which succeeded the Louis-Quatorze style, and characterized the reign of Louis XV. (1715-74). In it the peculiarities of the preceding style are carried to extremes; the severe sense of proportion and measure which always characterized the magnificence of the seventeenth century is replaced by a complete disregard of symmetry and of the interdependence of masses, by an elongated treatment of the foliations of the scroll, and by a profusion of shell-work of crimped and fantastic but meaningless conventionality. In its most debased and tawdry form, ornament of this style is termed rococo.