Louis Quatorzian

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1. Pertaining to Louis XIV of France, or the perceived opulence of his court.

   It was a plan of Louis Quatorzian presumption, and we all know what happens to people who push their luck.

   2009, Paul Sonnino, “Plus royaliste que le pape”, in War and Religion after Westphalia, page 21

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   Miss Huddle was unable to decide in her mind whether the action savoured of Louis Quatorzian courtliness or the reprehensible Roman attitude towards the Sabine women.

   1911, Saki, ‘The Unrest-cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis

   Well before 1700, the surface glamour of court life on which the Louis-Quatorzian myth had been founded had begun to pall.

   2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 18