Louis-Quinze

English

Etymology

French

Adjective

Louis-Quinze (not comparable)

1. Characteristic of the reign of Louis XV of France (1710-74) in architecture and decoration.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     In the center of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps.