louvre

plural louvres

1. UKalternativeAlternative form of louver.

1. A famous art museum and former royal palace in Paris, France.

   God above, this man was as chiseled as the statues she'd spied in the Louvre.

   2011, Tara Kingston, Claimed by the Spymaster, page 68

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   I don't care if your split, power or squat position looks like it should be in the Louvre, you won't jerk a thing.

   2010, Don McCauley, Power Trip: A Guide to Weightlifting for Coaches, Athletes and Parents, page 130

   I preferred the Dutch apple pie, and my waitress for those few years had legs that belonged in the Louvre.

   2006, Ted Nelson Lundrigan, Bob White, A Bird in the Hand, page 85

   IF YOU ARE a young Joe DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle with a swing that belongs in the Louvre, somebody might get the idea you could win a batting title, even if it was only your second year with the New York Yankees.

   1985 February, Phil Elderkin, “Don Mattingly: A.L. Batting Champion, A Born Hitter”, in Baseball Digest, volume 44, number 2, page 49

   For purposes of illustrating a lecture on calisthenics, a stick figure is a better picture of a squatting man than something from the Louvre.

   1960, Thomas Felix Staton, How to Instruct Successfully: Modern Teaching Methods in Adult Education, page 172

   They are cries which show that every one has his own place, and should stay in it, — M. de Guise in the streets, and you in the Louvre. Go to the Louvre, Sire; go to the Louvre.

   1889, Alexandre Dumas, Dame de Monsoreau: Volume 1, page 319