Definitions for louvres

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louvres lou·vre

Spelling: [loo-ver]

IPA: /ˈlu vər/

Louvres is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in louvres (elorsuv).

Definitions for louvres

noun

1. a national museum in Paris, France, since 1793: formerly a royal palace.
2. any of a series of narrow openings framed at their longer edges with slanting, overlapping fins or slats, adjustable for admitting light and air while shutting out rain.
3. a fin or slat framing such an opening.
4. a ventilating turret or lantern, as on the roof of a medieval building.
5. any of a system of slits formed in the hood of an automobile, the door of a metal locker, etc., used especially for ventilation.
6. a door, window, or the like, having adjustable louvers.

verb (used with object)

1. to make a louver in; add louvers to:

noun, verb (used with object)

1. louver.

Origin of louvres

1325-75; Middle English lover Middle French lovier Middle Dutch love gallery. See lobby

Examples for louvres

It is situated under the gallery of the louvre, in the Place du Carrousel.

Outside the louvre, we walk right past framed copies of the same painting.

Finally, as in the case of Cochin, apartments were assigned to him in the louvre.

Jean-Dominique Vivant Denon, the first director of the louvre Museum, had the same plan.

By Nick Mafi The Mona Lisa was stolen from the louvre in August 1911.

He at last began to hold forth against working at the louvre.

Why, were there not a hundred pictures in the louvre composed in precisely the same way?

Slowly the word must have gone around that a wedding party was visiting the louvre.

As an expression of gratitude, Paul donated thirty-three of these paintings to major French museums, including the louvre.

I had been to louvre and seen the [Mona Lisa], but it never crossed my mind to be interested in who she was as a person.