Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the rococo style in architecture, furniture, and decoration of the reign of Louis XV.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The print on a precisely tailored dress lures you into the midst of a well-appointed, hyperreal space where gumball-pink Louis Quinze chairs flank a gilt console and a picture window that reveals a garden beyond.
Interior Motives Meenal Mistry 2011
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The Givenchy presentation was not unlike the scene in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," where an inexplicable black monolith materializes in an ornate Louis Quinze bedroom.
Welcome to the Show Michael Roberts 2012
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The furniture was not plentiful, nor was it in the style of Louis Quinze or Louis Seize, but it was sufficient.
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They are nearly always caressing in their manners, as if the heyday of love still lingered on for these septuagenarian portraits of the age of Louis Quinze, with the faint perfume of poudre a la marechale always clinging about them.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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We headed back into the souk, where amid the shacks a reproduction Louis Quinze bedhead was propped against a wall.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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We headed back into the souk, where amid the shacks a reproduction Louis Quinze bedhead was propped against a wall.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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The furniture was not plentiful, nor was it in the style of Louis Quinze or Louis
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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Of course he motored to New York immediately, then he wired to me at Newport, and together we opened his apartment at the Louis Quinze.
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Their horsemanship is peculiar, they balance themselves upon little Abyssinian saddles, extending the leg and raising the heel in the Louis Quinze style of equitation, and the stirrup is an iron ring admitting only the big toe.
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They sat in the Louis Quinze dining room of the Ritz, tucked away in a corner, shaded by a large feathery plant, and a little out of place in civilian clothes amidst the sea of uniforms.
Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002
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