Louvre definitions

Louvre

1) Air pipe 2) Louver 3) Museum
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Louvre

1) Converted palace 2) Da Vinci Code setting 3) Home for Nike of Samothrace 4) Home of the Mona Lisa 5) Home to the Venus de Milo 6) Louvre museum 7) Mona Lisa home 8) Mona Lisa museum 9) Mona Lisa site 10) Museum 11) Museum in Paris 12) Museum of Ancient Near East 13) Museum on the Right Bank 14) Museum on the seine
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Louvre

The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built as a fortress in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre prima...
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louvre

sloping slat placed across an opening
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Louvre

• (n.) A small lantern. See Lantern, 2 (a).
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Louvre

Opening in roof (sometimes topped with lantern) to allow smoke to escape from central hearth.
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louvre

screen made of translucent or opaque components and geometrically disposed to prevent lamps from being directly visible over a given angle
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Louvre

Opening in roof (sometimes topped with lantern) to allow smoke to escape from central hearth.
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20018

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Louvre

French art gallery, former palace of the French kings, in Paris. It was converted to an art gallery in 1793 to house the royal collections. Two of its best-known exhibits are the sculpture Venus...
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Louvre

opening in roof to allow smoke to escape from central hearth
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Louvre

In architecture a louvre is a small lantern or a turret, placed on the roofs of ancient halls, kitchens, etc, to allow of the escape of smoke, or to promote ventilation. Originally they were entirely open at the sides, or closed only with narrow boards, placed horizontally and sloping, and at a little distance apart, so as to exclude rain and snow ...
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Louvre

[n] - an art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris
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Louvre

Inclined boards, which admit light and air, but exclude the rain.
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Louvre

opening in roof to allow smoke to escape from central hearth
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20402

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Louvre

A movable vane for controlling an opening for the flow of cooling air.
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20784

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Louvre

noun an art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974

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Louvre

French art gallery, former palace of the French kings, in Paris. It was converted to an art gallery in 1793 to house the royal collections. Two of its best-known exhibits are Alexandros of Antioch's sculpture Venus de Milo and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The gallery comprises seven sections: ...
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21221

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