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Tuileries Palace

Tuileries Palace

9.0
A former royal home in Paris built in 1564 and burned down in 1871
  • proper noun
translation icon : Palacio de Tuileries
  • The Tuileries Palace was once a magnificent royal residence.

Examples

  • The Tuileries Palace once stood as a symbol of French royal power until its destruction in 1871.

  • Thousands of Parisians gathered outside the Tuileries Palace during the tumultuous days of the French Revolution.

  • Today, visitors wander the formal gardens that remain where the Tuileries Palace once existed.

  • Many tourists visit the gardens of the Tuileries Palace today.

  • In the heart of Paris, the Tuileries Palace was once a magnificent royal residence.

  • Visitors to Paris often stroll through the gardens that remain of the Tuileries Palace.

  • The Tuileries Palace, built for Catherine de Medici, was a symbol of royal power in France.

Synonyms

Tuileries
vsTuileries Palace
1 9.9

A former royal palace in Paris mostly destroyed in 1871, with only the gardens left

is the same place but uses the longer formal name

Surface Forms

Tuileries Palace main

Morphology

Tuileries + palace

The phrase is a place-name + noun composition: a palace named 'Tuileries'. Knowing 'Tuileries' as the proper name and 'palace' as a royal residence lets a B1 learner infer it refers to a specific royal residence in Paris; the historical details (dates, destruction) are extra encyclopedic information but the core meaning is transparently derived from the constituents.

Etymology

Tuileries Palace comes from the French word tuilerie, which means 'tile factory'. The palace was built in 1564 on land where people made roof tiles, so the place kept the old name even after it became a royal home and later turned into the gardens we see today.