louvre

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This hearth still remains on the floor of the hall, and the louvre is still to be seen in the roof above. [

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  1. See louver.
  2. A fashionable dance derived from a favorite song of Louis XIV. As soon as the minuet was closed, the princess said softly to Harry in French, “The Louvre, sir, if you please.” This was a dance of the newest fashion. Brooke, Fool of Quality, II. 99. (Davies.) She proposed herself for a Louvre; all the men vowed they had never heard of such a dance. Walpole, Letters, II. 194.

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  1. from French Louvre, the name (of unknown origin) of a building in Paris, anciently a royal castle or palace, now a national museum.
 

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