Crossword clues for tuileries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
former palace in Paris, begun by Catherine de Medici, 1564; so called because it was built on the site of an ancient tile-works, from Old French tieule "tile," from Latin tegula (see tile (n.)). The former residence of the royal court, it was destroyed by fire in 1871 and now is the site of the Jardin des Tuileries.
Wikipedia
Tuileries (, lit. tile factories) is a station on Paris Métro Line 1, situated in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
Usage examples of "tuileries".
As we left the Tuileries, Patu took me to the house of a celebrated actress of the opera, Mademoiselle Le Fel, the favourite of all Paris, and member of the Royal Academy of Music.
Castel-Bajac had told her my name on her recognizing me in the Tuileries, she had thought it her bounden duty to deliver me to the law that she might be compensated for the violence I had used to her.
The Place de la Revolution, the Quays, the Tuileries, the boulevards, are crowded with troops.
I was taking a walk in the Tuileries, not thinking any more of my female extortioner, when a small man, with his hat cocked on one side of his head and a large nosegay in his button-hole, and sporting a long sword, swaggered up to me and informed me, without any further explanation, that he had a fancy to cut my throat.
Especially when the western sunshine streamed down over it all, turning even the dust of the atmosphere into gold and emblazoning the windows of the Tuileries with a sort of historic glory, his heart must have swelled within him in throbs of imperial exaltation.
The public garden of the Tuileries was closed at dusk, no one being permitted to remain in it after dark.
Lights were gleaming from the windows of the Tuileries, lights blazed along the Rue de Rivoli, dotted the great Square, and glowed for miles up the Champs Elysees.
I am not naturally nervous, but to be caught lurking in the Tuileries Garden in the night would involve me in the gravest peril.
A man shut into the Tuileries Garden begins to think that it is all an illusion, the trick of a disordered fancy.
We went out together and took a walk in the Tuileries, where he introduced me to Madame du Boccage, who made a good jest in speaking of the Marechal de Saxe.
I left her and went to the Tuileries, where a sacred concert was being given.
She wanted me to go and walk in the Tuileries and the Palais Royal, to convince people that the report of my imprisonment had been false.
The old house of Fossum was peaceful enough and seemed somehow pathetically small after the Tuileries and the Winter Palace.
Every one was so stupid about it, and thought that I was the old man who feeds the sparrows in the Tuileries Gardens.
When they crossed the Tuileries she was almost surprised that people did not turn to see them pass.