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Definition of 'Louvre'

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(en-proper noun)
  • A famous art museum in Paris, France.
  • * 2011 , Tara Kingston, Claimed by the Spymaster , p. 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 , p. 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 , p. 85:
  • I preferred the Dutch apple pie, and my waitress for those few years had legs that belonged in the Louvre .
  • * 1985 , Phil Elderkin, "Don Mattingly: A.L. Batting Champion, A Born Hitter", Baseball Digest , Vol. 44, No. 2, February 1985, p. 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 , p. 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 , , Dame de Monsoreau: Volume 1 , p. 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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