Meanings
adjectiveLouis-Quinze (not comparable)
- not comparableCharacteristic of the reign of Louis XV of France (1710-74) in architecture and decoration.
In the center of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
Origin
From French.
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