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Definition: Louvre |
LouvreNoun1. An art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris. 2. One of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Louvre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
"Louvre" is a common misspelling or typo for: louver, louvers. |
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Building & Civil Engineering | Horizontal openings in or between pieces of horizontal sheeting for the purpose of filling any voids which may occur behind the sheeting or to allow drainage of water through soil. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A screen made of translucent or opaque components and geometrically disposed to prevent lamps from being directly visible over a given angle. Source: European Union. (references) |
Language | A finned or vaned device to deflect or control a flow of air. . . (electric fans are often fitted with circular -to direct the airstream). Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Louvre [Paris ]. A corruption of Lupara, as it is called in old title-deeds. Dagobert is said to have built here a hunting-seat, the nucleus of the present magnificent pile of buildings. "He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it." Shakespeare: Henry V, ii. 4. Louvre. The tower or turret of a building like a belfry, originally designed for a sort of chimney to let out the smoke. (French, l'ouvert, the opening.) Louvre boards in churches. Before chimneys were used, holes were left in the roof, called loovers or leuver holes. From the French l'ouvert (the open boards). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | An opening consisting of a series of sloping slats overlapping each other in such a way as to admit air while at the same time obstructing the passage of foreign bodies. Source: European Union. (references) |
Personal Care & Hotels | An assembly of sloping vanes intended to permit air to pass through. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The main courtyard of the Louvre. The entrance to the galleries lies below the glass pyramid.
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The Louvre, or musée du Louvre in French, is a venerable museum in Paris, France. The building, a former royal palace, lies in the centre of Paris, between the Seine river and the Rue de Rivoli. Its central courtyard, now occupied by the Louvre glass pyramid lies in the axis of the Champs-Élysées, and forms part of the Axe historique.
It is one of the oldest and greatest museums in the world, with a long history of holding the rich artistic heritage of the French people from the early Capetian Kings through the Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte and to the present day.
The Louvre is managed by the French state under the Réunion des Musées Nationaux.
The Louvre attracts millions of visitors every year from all over the world, with arguably the best art collection anywhere. Among the thousands of priceless paintings is the Mona Lisa, perhaps the most famous painting in the world. Works of artists like Renoir Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, Poussin, David, and Leonardo da Vinci can also be seen. Among the well-known sculptures in the collection are the Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo.
Besides art, the Louvre has many other types of exhibits, including archeology, history, and architecture.
A painting in the Louvre: Galerie de Vues de la Rome Moderne by Panini (1759). Three metres (ten feet) long, it comprises paintings of real paintings.
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A scupture in the Louvre: The Winged Victory of Samothrace (200 BC). In commemoration of a Greek naval victory at Rhodes.
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The most recent significant modification of the Louvre was the "Grand Louvre" project, under president François Mitterrand. This opened the north wing of the building, which had hitherto housed government offices, and covered over several small internal courtyards. Most spectacular of all, it added a glass pyramid designed by the architect I. M. Pei at the center of the palace. The much expanded and re-organized Louvre reopened in 1989.
Access
Metro Palais-Royal--Musée-du-Louvre or Louvre--Rivoli.
External links
- More than 10.000 pictures : Musée du Louvre - Louvre Museum
- Musée du Louvre - Louvre Museum : Egypt Antiquities
- Musée du Louvre - Louvre Museum : Greek Antiquities
- Musée du Louvre - Louvre Museum : Roman Antiquities
- Musée du Louvre - Louvre Museum : Spanish Paintings
- Musée du Louvre - Louvre Museum : French Paintings
- Musée du Louvre - Louvre Museum : Italian Paintings
- Louvre Home Page (French)
- Louvre Home Page (English)
- History of the Louvre
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Louvre."
Synonyms: LouvreSynonyms: fin (n), louver (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Airpipe | Noun: air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus, bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe. (wind); pipe. (tube); jhilmil; smokestack. |
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Crosswords: Louvre |
| English words defined with "Louvre": Tuileries, Tuileries Gardens. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Louvre": Bloody Week ♦ CONTRA DANCE ♦ LOUIS XIV, Louvre of St. Petersburg ♦ Moabite Stone ♦ Raul ♦ VENUS, Venus of Milo, VINCI ♦ Walls have Ears. (references) |
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Screenplays | I'm on loan from the Louvre. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another (The Cable Guy; writing credit: Lou Holtz Jr.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Les Guichets du Louvre (1973) Louvre Come Back to Me! (1962) La Ville Louvre (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Roman seats in the Louvre Museum. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The copyist in the Louvre. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Congress at Vienna--the Louvre. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | L'Esclave, Musée du Louvre / A.G. phot. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Porte de l'entrée du Chasteau du Louvre, du costé de la Riviere, faict par la conduitte de Monsieur le Vau / I. Marot, fecit. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Les Dieux: Chevet d'un sarcophage en basalte de l'époque saïte (Musée de Louvre). Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Paris - panorama de la Cité, vue prise du Louvre / X-Photo. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Panoramic view of Louvre, Paris. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "The Louvre", Paris, France. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Louvre pyramid through arch" by Jim Bednar Commentary: "Visitors to the Louvre, framed by archway and in front of the Pei pyramid." | "Internal Courtyard of Louvre" by Chico Iuliano Commentary: "An internal façade of the Louvre Museum at sunset." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Her heart and the Louvre. |
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| "Louvre" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.19% of the time. "Louvre" is used about 193 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 91.19% | 176 | 23,410 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.81% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 193 | N/A |
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| Country | Name |
| France | Societe du Louvre - Groupe du Louvre |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Louvre": Louvre Museum ♦ smoke louvre. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Louvre": louvre-board, louvre-boards, louvre-fronted, louvre-organised. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Louvre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Frëngji Ajrimi (louver), Dritare Me Grila (louver). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Куличка С Отвор В Покрив, Неостъклено Прозорче С Летви. (various references) | |
Chinese | 天窗 (louver, scuttle, skylight). (various references) | |
Czech | Muzeum Umìní V Paříži. (various references) | |
Danish | luftgæller (louver), lamelgitter (louver, spill shield), lamel (baffle, batten, slat, slats), varmepersienne (heat louvre), spjaeld (baffle, damper), jalousiglas (jalousie, louver), jalousi (blind, jalousie, shutter, venetian blind, ventilator), gæller (louver). (various references) | |
Dutch | luchtklep (air-valve), licht rooster (louver, spill shield), ventilatiespleet (louver), turbulentieregelaar (baffle), rookluik (louver, smoke hatch, smoke vent), jalouzie (jalousie, louver, venetian blind). (various references) | |
Finnish | uurre (furrow, groove), tuuletusaukko (breather plug, louver, vent), säleikkö (lattice, trellis grille-work), rako (chink, cleft, crack, slit, slot), kaihdinlasi (jalousie, louver), häikäisysuoja (sun-shield). (various references) | |
French | louvre(B) (louver), louvre, grille de défilement (louver), écran paralume (louver), ailette (louver), fente d'aération (louver), fente d'aération à persienne (louver), fente dans un blindage horizontal, "store vénitien" (heat louvre), fentes d'aération à persienne (louver), volet mobile (heat louvre), jalousie (louver), paralume (louver), persienne (louver), trappe de fumee (louver), fentes d'aération (louver). (various references) | |
German | Luftschlitz (louver, shroud), Jalousie (blind(s) Venetian ~, blinds, roller-blind, shade, venetian blinds). (various references) | |
Greek | πέτασμα φωτιστικού (louver, spill shield), περσίδα (baffle, shutter, ventilator), χώρισμα (cubicle, divide, parting, partition, septum), άνοιγμα αερισμού με περσίδες (louver), ανοίγματα αερισμού, αεροθυρίδα, θερμορυθμιστικό παραθυρόφυλλο (heat louvre), ίινητέσ Γρίλιεσ, "περσίδες" (jalousie, louver). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsalu (Jalousie, louver, louver-boards, Persian blinds). (various references) | |
Italian | lamella per gelosia (jalousie, louver), sfinestratura (baffle, vision panel), schermo (display, screen, shield), Persiana Di Ventilazione (louver), persiana (blind, Jalousie, roller-blind), Feritoia Per Ventilazione (louver), feritoia di ventilazione (baffle, louver), Apertura A Gelosia (louver). (various references) | |
Manx | uinnag lattagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ouvrelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gelosia (lattice, louver, trellis). (various references) | |
Russian | Жалюзи (Jalousie). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otvor za vazduh (air hole, blowhole, louver). (various references) | |
Spanish | Persiana (blind, louver, persian, shade, sunblind). (various references) | |
Swedish | Luftintag (indraft, indraught, louver), luftgaller (air grille, grille, louver), Ventilationsgaller (louver), slits (slit, vent), raster (screen), klaff (finger-hole, flap, key, leaf), jalusispjäll, jalousi (jalousie, louver). (various references) | |
Thai | ช่องระบายอากาศ, บานเกล็ด (louver), ติดบานเกล็ด (louver). (various references) | |
Turkish | Panjurlu Pencere (louver), Çatı Penceresi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Жалюзі (Jalousie). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Louvre": louvred, louvres. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Louvre" (pronounced luw"vru) |
| 4 | -uw" v r u | oeuvre. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: louver, velour. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-r-u-v" | |
-1 letter: lover, ovule. | |
-2 letters: euro, levo, lore, lour, love, lure, orle, over, role, roue, rove, rule, vole. | |
-3 letters: leu, lev, luv, ole, ore, our, rev, roe, rue, voe. | |
-4 letters: el, er, lo, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-r-u-v" | |
+1 letter: louvers, louvred, louvres, velours. | |
+2 letters: louvered, outliver, overfoul, overfull, overhaul, overloud, overlush, overplus, overrule, oversoul, pullover, revolute, rivulose, truelove, vermoulu. | |
+3 letters: boulevard, evaluator, flavoured, involucre, marvelous, nervously, ourselves, outlivers, overbuild, overbuilt, overcloud, overhauls, overruled, overrules, oversouls, overvalue, pullovers, revulsion, trueloves, volumeter, volunteer. | |
+4 letters: boulevards, evaluators, grievously, involucres, marvellous, outdeliver, outrivaled, overblouse, overbrutal, overbuilds, overclouds, overhauled, overpluses, overruling, overslaugh, oversubtle, oversupply, overvalued, overvalues, previously, propulsive, ravenously, revolution, revulsions, travelogue, turtledove, unlovelier, unprovable, unresolved, viperously, volumeters, volumetric, volunteers, yourselves. | |
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