louis

A male given name from French.

'It is hardly a week since you called me your future husband, and treated me as such; now I am once more the tutor for you: I am addressed as Mr. Moore, and Sir; your lips have forgotten Louis.' "'No, Louis, no: it is an easy, liquid name; not soon forgotten.'

A female given name.

A surname.

Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis have been marching to their own choreographic drummer for a long time now.

Alternative letter-case form of louis: various gold and silver coins issued by the French kings.

It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones’s hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, […]

Any gold or silver coin issued by the French kings from Louis XIII to Louis XVI and bearing their image on the obverse side, particularly the gold louis d'ors, originally a French form of the Spanish doubloon but varying in value between 10

The louis d'or constitutionnel, a 24-livre gold coin issued by the First French Republic.

The franc germinal or napoleon, a similar gold coin issued by Napoleon and bearing his image on the obverse, worth 20 francs.