Definition of: Louis-Seize

(l′ē·sez′) adjective
Designating the style of architecture, decoration, and furniture which characterized the period of Louis XVI (1774–93): a reaction against the Louis–Quinze period, marked by simple, rectilinear forms, and using symmetrical Greco–Roman wreaths, birds, etc., as ornaments, or Greek egg–and–anchor or leaf motifs, achieving a plain internal decoration. [<F]