Louvre
See also: louvre
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French Louvre, further origin unclear. Possibly from Frankish and Germanic or from louveterie, or from Latin Lupara. See Louvre Palace.
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Louvre
- A famous art museum and former royal palace in Paris, France.
- 2011, Tara Kingston, Claimed by the Spymaster, page 68:
- God above, this man was as chiseled as the statues she'd spied in the Louvre.
- 2010, Don McCauley, Power Trip: A Guide to Weightlifting for Coaches, Athletes and Parents, page 130:
- I don't care if your split, power or squat position looks like it should be in the Louvre, you won't jerk a thing.
- 2006, Ted Nelson Lundrigan, Bob White, A Bird in the Hand, page 85:
- I preferred the Dutch apple pie, and my waitress for those few years had legs that belonged in the Louvre.
- 1985 February, Phil Elderkin, “Don Mattingly: A.L. Batting Champion, A Born Hitter”, in Baseball Digest, volume 44, number 2, page 49:
- IF YOU ARE a young Joe DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle with a swing that belongs in the Louvre, somebody might get the idea you could win a batting title, even if it was only your second year with the New York Yankees.
- 1960, Thomas Felix Staton, How to Instruct Successfully: Modern Teaching Methods in Adult Education, page 172:
- For purposes of illustrating a lecture on calisthenics, a stick figure is a better picture of a squatting man than something from the Louvre.
- 1889, Alexandre Dumas, Dame de Monsoreau: Volume 1, page 319:
- They are cries which show that every one has his own place, and should stay in it, — M. de Guise in the streets, and you in the Louvre. Go to the Louvre, Sire; go to the Louvre.
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an art museum in France
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Etymology edit
Possibly from Latin Lupara, or of Germanic and Frankish origin. In an old Saxon-Latin gloss, Loëvar is translated as Castellum.
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