louis
1 Americannoun
plural
louisnoun
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Joe Joseph Louis Barrow, 1914–81, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1937–49.
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a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “loud battle.”
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of louis
First recorded in 1680–90
Example Sentences
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He encountered all types there, some of whom he’d later recognize in works such as “Holes,” Louis Sachar’s 1998 young-adult novel set in a camp for juvenile offenders.
One of the most striking images doing the rounds last summer was that of a former minister's son Saugat Thapa, standing beside Louis Vuitton, Cartier and Gucci boxes piled high in the shape of a Christmas tree.
From BBC
Yet unlike just about everyone else, she rejected Ab Ex’s angst-driven layering, inventing, instead, an influential method of staining unprimed canvas with floods of thin color, offering many artists, including such older men as Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, an alternative to loaded gestures.
In one 2011 email he apparently claims to be friends with Louis Cheung, the president of Ping An, one of the world's largest insurance companies, and Alvin Jiang, the grandson of the former president Jiang Zemin.
From BBC
“There is a flight to quality underway as nervous investors flee stocks due to ‘AI derangement syndrome’ on the fears that unemployment will continue to soar as the new technology replaces workers,” said Louis Navellier of Navellier Calculated Investing.
From Barron's
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