louvre

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[ˈluːvə], (Noun)

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- each of a set of angled slats fixed or hung at regular intervals in a door, shutter, or screen to allow air or light to pass through
(e.g: murky light filters through the vertical louvres of the window blinds)

- (in a medieval house) a structure in a roof incorporating openings for the passage of smoke


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Middle English (in louvre): from Old French lover, lovier ‘skylight’, probably of Germanic origin and related to lodge


[luvʀ], (Noun)

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- the principal museum and art gallery of France, in Paris, housed in the former royal palace built by Francis I. The Louvre holds the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo


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