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Tuileries

tui·le·ries

uncommon

noun

1.

palace and royal residence built for Catherine de Medicis in 1564 and burned down in 1871; all that remains today are the formal gardens

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2.

formal gardens next to the Louvre in Paris

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From French Tuileries, from tuileries, feminine plural of tuilerie (“place for manufacturing tiles”). The name comes from the tile kilns which occupied the site before the palace.

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