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Louisiade
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English
Etymology
Named in 1768 by Louis Antoine de Bougainville after Louis XV, the king of France (though they had been discovered long before).
Proper noun
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An archipelago, southeast of New Guinea, consisting of a string of ten larger volcanic islands and 90 smaller coral islands.
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