Tuileries
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- proper noun
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Tuileries
- There is a fountain, I tell her, a huge pool really, in the Tuileries gardens, and every evening about five, all the mothers in the neighborhood take the kids there to wait for their papas coming home from work.
- Tuileries Garden
Examples
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One day, following a lengthy visit to the Louvre, Lise goes into the Tuileries and sits down.
Fiction book (1999) -
After a nap and a bath, the rain had stopped, and they strolled slowly under a dry, tempestuous sky along the main gravel allee of the Tuileries, crowded at seven in the evening but long and wide enough to accommodate every stroller comfortably.
Fiction book (2001) -
Could we walk in the Tuileries now?
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ALAN: Say, isn't that the man I saw you with in the Tuileries today?
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We walk along the river, into the courtyard of the Louvre, into the Tuileries Garden.
Fiction book (1997) -
Just a month ago, I visited his apartment at 2.04 rue de Rivoli to see a series of impressions he had undertaken to portray the peaceful Tuileries.
Fiction book (1996) -
We walked up through the Jardin des Tuileries and then back across the Pont Royal and decided to go and have a look at Musée d'Orsay.
Blog text (8) -
The following Sunday, the Tuileries and the Champs-Élysées were filled with women streaked with bright-colored belts, hairbands, and Greek cothurnes.
Academic text (2015) -
The last thing they did that afternoon as the sun was sinking was to walk in the Tuileries Gardens, where the children still played in brightly colored warm clothes under the chestnut trees, and gossiping nannies wrapped in cloaks were starting to wheel home the prams.
Fiction book (1993) -
We enjoyed a sunny afternoon walking through the beautiful Tuileries Gardens.
Synonyms
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A garden with regular shapes, straight paths and neatly trimmed plants
Formal public gardens next to the Louvre in Paris with paths, fountains, and sculptures
Compounds
Formal public gardens next to the Louvre in Paris with paths, fountains, and sculptures
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tuileries comes from the French word tuile, which means 'tile'. Long before the garden was made, the area had kilns and people who made tiles, so the large formal garden kept the old name and is still called the Tuileries.