louis : Idioms & Phrases

• noun United States anthropologist noted for his studies of culture (1876-1960)
  Kroeber; Alfred Kroeber.
  

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• noun French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
  Montesquieu; Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu.
  

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• noun nephew of Napoleon I and emperor of the French from 1852 to 1871 (1808-1873)
  Emperor Napoleon III; Napoleon III.
  

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• noun lettuce and crabmeat dressed with sauce Louis
  

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• noun a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis
  

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• noun French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896)
  Goncourt; Edmond de Goncourt.
  

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• noun third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964)
  Edward; Prince Edward.
  

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• noun French physician who described cardiac anomalies including Fallot's tetralogy (1850-1911)
  Fallot.
  

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• noun English writer and illustrator; grandfather of Daphne du Maurier (1834-1896)
  George du Maurier; du Maurier.
  

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• noun French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)
  Henri Bergson; Bergson.
  

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• noun United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934)
  Hank Aaron; Aaron.
  

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• noun baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941)
  Gehrig; Lou Gehrig.
  

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• noun United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956)
  Mencken; H. L. Mencken.
  

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• noun island in Paris on the Seine
  

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• noun French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)
  David.
  

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• noun French architect (1825-1898)
  Garnier.
  

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• noun United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)
  Agassiz; Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz.
  

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• noun United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969)
  Kerouac; Jack Kerouac.
  

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• noun United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
  Jackson; Jesse Jackson.
  

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• noun United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981)
  Louis; Joe Louis.
  

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• noun United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981)
  Louis; Joe Louis.
  

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• noun French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850)
  Gay-Lussac.
  

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• noun United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)
  Agassiz; Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz.
  

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• noun French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811)
  Bougainville.
  

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• noun French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982)
  Aragon.
  

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• noun United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971)
  Satchmo; Armstrong.
  

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• noun United States writer (born in 1917)
  Louis Auchincloss; Auchincloss.
  

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• noun United States filmmaker (born in Russia) who founded his own film company and later merged with Samuel Goldwyn (1885-1957)
  Mayer; Louis B. Mayer.
  

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• noun French aviator who in 1909 made the first flight across the English Channel (1872-1936)
  Bleriot.
  

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• noun French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)
  Braille.
  

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• noun United States filmmaker (born in Russia) who founded his own film company and later merged with Samuel Goldwyn (1885-1957)
  Mayer; Louis B. Mayer.
  

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• noun French poet and writer (1810-1857)
  Musset; Alfred de Musset.
  

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• noun United States artist who developed Tiffany glass (1848-1933)
  Tiffany.
  

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• noun a former French gold coin
  

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Lou"is d'or`

Etymology

F., gold louis.

Definitions

1. Formerly, a gold coin of France nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; -- first struck in 1640.

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• noun king of France (921-954)
  Louis d'Outremer.
  

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• noun French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904)
  Neel.
  

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• noun English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
  Gray.
  

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• noun United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase `form follows function' (1856-1924)
  Sullivan; Louis Henri Sullivan; Louis Henry Sullivan.
  

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• noun United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase `form follows function' (1856-1924)
  Sullivan; Louis Henri Sullivan; Louis Henry Sullivan.
  

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• noun third son of Charlemagne and king of France and Germany and Holy Roman Emperor (778-840)
  Louis I.
  

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• noun king of France and Germany (846-879)
  Louis II; Louis le Begue; Louis the German.
  

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• noun son of Louis II and king of the France and Germany (863-882)
  

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• noun United States architect (born in Estonia) (1901-1974)
  Kahn.
  

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• noun king of France (921-954)
  Louis d'Outremer.
  

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• noun king of France and son of Louis VIII; he led two unsuccessful Crusades; considered an ideal medieval king (1214-1270)
  Louis IX; Saint Louis.
  

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• noun French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851)
  Daguerre.
  

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• noun French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)
  Joliet; Jolliet; Louis Joliet.
  

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• noun French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)
  Joliet; Jolliet; Louis Joliet.
  

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• noun king of France and Germany (846-879)
  Louis II; Louis le Begue; Louis the German.
  

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• noun the last Carolingian king of France (967-987)
  Louis le Faineant.
  

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• noun king of France (1289-1316)
  Louis le Hutin; Louis the Quarreller.
  

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• noun English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
  Louis Leakey; Leakey.
  

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• noun French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895)
  Pasteur.
  

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• noun English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
  Louis Leakey; Leakey.
  

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• noun United States writer (born in 1917)
  Louis Auchincloss; Auchincloss.
  

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• noun United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase `form follows function' (1856-1924)
  Sullivan; Louis Henri Sullivan; Louis Henry Sullivan.
  

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• noun king of France whose military victories consolidated his reign (1081-1137)
  Louis the Wideawake; Louis the Bruiser; Louis the Far.
  

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• noun king of France whose military victories consolidated his reign (1081-1137)
  Louis the Wideawake; Louis the Bruiser; Louis the Far.
  

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• noun king of France and Germany (846-879)
  Louis II; Louis le Begue; Louis the German.
  

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• noun king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)
  Sun King; Louis the Great.
  

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• noun third son of Charlemagne and king of France and Germany and Holy Roman Emperor (778-840)
  Louis I.
  

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• noun king of France (1289-1316)
  Louis le Hutin; Louis the Quarreller.
  

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• noun king of France and Germany (846-879)
  Louis II; Louis le Begue; Louis the German.
  

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• noun king of France whose military victories consolidated his reign (1081-1137)
  Louis the Wideawake; Louis the Bruiser; Louis the Far.
  

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• noun United States writer (1885-1977)
  Untermeyer.
  

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• noun the last Carolingian king of France (967-987)
  Louis le Faineant.
  

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• noun king of France whose military victories consolidated his reign (1081-1137)
  Louis the Wideawake; Louis the Bruiser; Louis the Far.
  

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• noun French nuclear physicist who generalized the wave-particle duality by proposing that particles of matter exhibit wavelike properties (1892-1987)
  de Broglie; Broglie.
  

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• noun king of France who led the unsuccessful Second Crusade and fought frequent wars with Henry II of England (1120-1180)
  

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• noun king of France who increased the power of the Crown over the feudal lords (1187-1226)
  

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• noun king of France (1289-1316)
  Louis le Hutin; Louis the Quarreller.
  

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• noun king of France who put down an alliance of unruly nobles and unified France except for Brittany (1423-1483)
  

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• noun king of France who was popular with his subjects (1462-1515)
  

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• noun king of France from 1610 to 1643 who relied heavily on the advice of Cardinal Richelieu (1601-1643)
  

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• noun king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)
  Sun King; Louis the Great.
  

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• noun grandson of Louis XIV and king of France from 1715 to 1774 who led France into the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1710-1774)
  

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• noun king of France from 1774 to 1792; his failure to grant reforms led to the French Revolution; he and his queen (Marie Antoinette) were guillotined (1754-1793)
  

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• noun French composer of romantic works (1803-1869)
  Berlioz; Hector Berlioz.
  

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• noun United States librarian who founded the decimal system of classification (1851-1931)
  Melvil Dewey; Dewey.
  

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• noun capital and chief port of Mauritius; located on the northwestern coast of the island
  

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• noun Scottish author (1850-1894)
  Stevenson; Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson.
  

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• noun Scottish author (1850-1894)
  Stevenson; Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson.
  

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• noun king of France and son of Louis VIII; he led two unsuccessful Crusades; considered an ideal medieval king (1214-1270)
  Louis IX; Saint Louis.
  
• noun the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century
  Saint Louis; Gateway to the West.
  

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• noun a city on an offshore island in northeast Brazil
  

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• noun mayonnaise and heavy cream combined with chopped green pepper and green onion seasoned with chili sauce and Worcestershire sauce and lemon juice
  

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• noun the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century
  Saint Louis; Gateway to the West.
  
• noun king of France and son of Louis VIII; he led two unsuccessful Crusades; considered an ideal medieval king (1214-1270)
  Louis IX; Saint Louis.
  

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