Crossword clues for louis
louis
- Legendary trumpeter Armstrong
- Jazz great Armstrong
- Ella's frequent duettist
- Detroit's Joe __ Arena
- Boxing's Joe
- "Damage" director Malle
- Winner over Schmeling in 1938
- Tiffany, for one
- Tiffany of stained glass
- Stand-up comic ___ C.K
- Scientist Pasteur
- Schmeling's defeater
- Satchmo's first name
- Ring great Joe
- Pugilistic Joe
- Prima or Pasteur
- One of 18 kings
- One Direction singer Tomlinson who adopted a chimpanzee
- Name of nearly 20 French kings
- Name of eighteen kings of France
- Name of 18 French kings
- Monsieur Pasteur
- Metis leader Riel
- Many a French king
- Justice Brandeis
- Julia ___-Dreyfus
- Joe the boxer
- Jazzy Armstrong
- Jazzman Armstrong
- Jazz legend Armstrong
- Heavyweight champ from 1937-49
- He beat Schmeling in 1938
- Fashion maven Vuitton
- Fashion house founder Vuitton
- Fashion designer Vuitton
- Famous French king
- Educator Braille
- Comic C.K
- CK who created "Horace & Pete"
- Boxing's 'Brown Bomber'
- Bourbon royal name
- Armstrong who signed letters "Red beans and ricely yours"
- Anthropologist Leakey
- Actor Jourdan
- "Seinfeld" actress Julia __-Dreyfus
- "Seinfeld" actress Julia ___-Dreyfus
- "How the West Was Won" writer L'Amour
- "Ella and ___" (1956 jazz album)
- ____ St Laurent (PM 1948to 1957)
- ___ XVIII (monarch whose reign was interrupted by the Hundred Days)
- Jurist Brandeis
- Robert ___ Stevenson
- One of 18 rois
- Satchmo, really
- One of 18 French kings
- Chemist Pasteur
- Tiffany who made Tiffany lamps
- 1930s-'40s heavyweight champ Joe
- Vuitton of fashion
- Boxing's Brown Bomber
- Winner of a famous 1938 rematch
- Automaker Chevrolet
- One of almost 20 French kings
- Armstrong of jazz
- Designer Vuitton
- United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight campion for 12 years (1914-1981)
- A Mo. patron?
- Braille's first name
- Armstrong or L'Amour
- St. or Joe
- See 42 Down
- Another boxer?
- An Armstrong
- Comedian Nye
- The Brown Bomber
- Champ after Braddock
- Pasteur or Prima
- Name for French kings
- Hall of Fame boxer
- Name of many French kings
- Name of eighteen undisputed kings of France
- French gold coin
- First name in fashion
- First name in jazz
- Trumpeter Armstrong
- Writer L'Amour
- Royal name
- "Satchmo" Armstrong
- St. __, MO
- French royal name
- French boy's name
- Comic ___ C.K
- Boxing great Joe
- Armstrong or Pasteur
- American trumpet player Armstrong
- St. ___
- Name of some French kings
- Name of several French kings
- Movie mogul Mayer
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, from French Louis, from Old French Loois, probably via Medieval Latin Ludovicus, a Latinization of Old High German Hluodowig, literally "famous in war" (cognate with Clovis; for etymology, see Ludwig). Louis Quatorze (1855) refers to styles reminiscent of the time of King Louis XIV of France (1643-1715).
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Ljubiša Stojanović "Louis" (Љубиша Стојановић "Луис"; 25 June 1952 – 31 July 2011) was a Serbian singer, born in Leskovac. Louis was known for his unique musical style and was in the music business from 1970 until his death. His stage name Louis originated from when he was nine and successfully performed Louis Armstrong's songs. He graduated from the music high school in Niš. He got his B.A. in Music from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, majoring in voice and composing with arrangement and folklore.
He was among the first to combine jazz with Serbia's folklore. In 1980 he recorded his first record titled Ne kuni me, ne ruži me, majko (Do Not Scold Me, Do Not Rebuke Me, Mother), gaining high sales. Together with the Serbian band Flamingosi, he almost won the Beovizija 2006 festival for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece.
He died in a car accident on July 31, 2011, on the road between Feketić and Vrbas. His last show was on July 22, 2011 at Club Jez in Sarajevo.
Louis ( or ; ) is the French form of the Old Frankish given name Chlodowig ( Modern German: Ludwig) and one of two English forms, the other being Lewis . The Frankish name is composed of the words for "fame" (hlōd) and "warrior" (wīg) which may be translated to famous warrior or "famous in battle".
Louis (circa 800 – 867) was the illegitimate son of Rotrude, daughter of Charlemagne, and Rorgon I of Maine.
He was elevated, with Lupus Servatus, to the Abbey of Saint-Pierre of Ferrières in the Gâtinais. He became an abbot in 838 and Abbot of Saint-Denis in 840 or 841.
He was the archchancellor first of his uncle Louis the Pious and then of his cousin Charles the Bald. In 844, Charles made him abbot of three foundations: Saint-Denis, Saint-Riquier, and Saint-Wandrille.
In 858, he and his half-brother Joscelin were captured by Vikings and only liberated with the payment of a large ransom.
Louis may refer to:
- Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name
- Louis (surname)
- Louis (coin)
- HMS Louis, two ships of the Royal Navy
Louis is a graphic novel series created by metaphrog, the Franco-Scottish duo Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers.
Louis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Antoine Louis (1723–1792), French surgeon and physiologist
- Arthur Louis (1945–2014), British musician
- Errol Louis (born 1962), American journalist and television show host
- Chris Louis (born 1969), English speedway rider
- Christos (Kitsos) Louis (born 1948), Greek Molecular Geneticist
- Godfrey Louis, solid-state physicist
- Jean Louis (1907–1997), French-born costume designer
- Jefferson Louis (born 1979), English footballer
- Joe Louis (1914–1981), American heavyweight boxer
- Lance Louis (born 1985), American football player
- Laurent Louis (born 1980), Belgian politician
- Lil Louis, stage name of American house-music producer and DJ Louis Sims
- Michèle Pierre-Louis (born 1947), Haitian politician
- Morris Louis (1912–1962), American painter
- Murray Louis (born 1926), American modern dancer and choreographer
- Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787–1872), French physician
- Séraphine Louis (1864–1942), French painter
- Spyridon Louis (1873–1940), Greek runner
- Thomas Louis (1758–1807), British naval officer
- Tim Louis (born 1958), Canadian lawyer and municipal politician
- Tristan Louis (born 1971), French-American author
- William Roger Louis (born 1936), American historian
Louis was a well-known parrot from Victoria, British Columbia. From the time of his reclusive owner's death in 1949 until 1966 he continued to live on his owner's estate, well-provided for in her will, and preventing development of the prime real estate.
Usage examples of "louis".
Poitou, one Geraud Berlai, whom he charged Louis with abetting in depredations against him on the marches of Anjou.
Raphael, by being employed in adulatory allegory, in honour of Princes, as is to be seen in the works of Rubens and Le Brun at Paris, artists of great talents, which they were led to misapply, through the supreme vanity of Louis the Fourteenth.
Robert succeeded in soothing him -- and the poor old lion is very quiet on the whole, roaring softly, to beguile the time, in Latin alcaics against his wife and Louis Napoleon.
You see a little ugly thing like an anatomized ape,--there, see,--he has just thrown down a chair, and, in stooping to pick it up, has almost fallen over the Dutch ambassadress,--that is Louis Armand, Prince of Conti.
This famous courtezan, whose beauty was justly celebrated, feeling herself eaten away by an internal disease, promised to give a hundred louis to a doctor named Lucchesi, who by dint of mercury undertook to cure her, but Ancilla specified on the agreement that she was not to pay the aforesaid sum till Lucchesi had offered with her an amorous sacrifice.
OFF THE Mangrove Coast From the jungles of Borneo to the hidden canyons of the American West, from small-town fight clubs to a Parisian cafe at the end of World War II, these are tales of betrayal and revenge, courage and cowardice, glory and greed, as only Louis L Amour can tell them.
Louis, which might induce him to rouse himself from his ordinary apathy and reserve, and make him more of a man of the world and more of a companion for her.
It is probably apocryphal since, according to Clery, Louis in fact expected to see Malesherbes again and became increasingly upset at his absence in the days that followed.
Christmas court in Argentan, victorious Henry escorted the Countess of Poitou through her own domain as Louis had done before him, and left her at last in the deep south with a household purely Poitevin.
It would have been an absurd misfortune that eighty men stationed in that bailiwick should, for the sake of a few louis and a few ells of English cloth, have occasioned the confiscation of Hamburg, French, and Dutch property to the amount of 80,000,000 francs.
Louis Browns, George Shaefer and others, he at once begun pulling wires looking toward the formation of an organization based on the old American Association lines, one that should do away with many of the evils that now exist.
Piccolomini, who had been casting a hungry eye upon my hundred louis, proposed immediately afterwards a bank at faro, and began to deal.
We began playing for five Louis the game, each player putting down the fifty Louis wagered.
Dubois informed us that the gentleman was the intimate friend of the Infante Don Louis, and that, believing he knew madam, he had begged to be introduced.
Soon after, I came down, and the scullion who was waiting for me on the landing begged me to make Madelaine give him half the louis.