Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The third month of the French revolutionary calendar (see
calendar ), beginning, in the year 1793, on November 21st, and ending December 20th.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See
vendémiaire .
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- proper noun historical The third month of the
French Republican Calendar , from late November to late December.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun third month of the Revolutionary calendar (November and December); the frosty month
Etymologies
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Examples
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Timor, Baton Island, and the delightful Sauva Island, were successively passed; and finally, upon the 16th "Frimaire," the western extremity of the south-western coast of New Holland, which was discovered by Leuwin in 1622, was sighted.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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WHEN REAR ADMIRAL Pléville Le Pelley, minister of marine, agreed to meet with Citizen Samson Boyle, inventor, on the morning of the third of Frimaire at the former convent of the Little Fathers, Mr. Boyle was thrilled.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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WHEN REAR ADMIRAL Pléville Le Pelley, minister of marine, agreed to meet with Citizen Samson Boyle, inventor, on the morning of the third of Frimaire at the former convent of the Little Fathers, Mr. Boyle was thrilled.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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It was the fourth of Frimaire; she could not remember the real date.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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WHEN REAR ADMIRAL Pléville Le Pelley, minister of marine, agreed to meet with Citizen Samson Boyle, inventor, on the morning of the third of Frimaire at the former convent of the Little Fathers, Mr. Boyle was thrilled.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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It was the fourth of Frimaire; she could not remember the real date.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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It was the fourth of Frimaire; she could not remember the real date.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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Beginning with that period November 24, 1793 or 3rd Frimaire in Year II, the churches of Paris were closed and the public reading of the Bible forbidden.
[reason and enlightenment] the greatest joke perpetrated on man 2009
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Beginning with that period November 24, 1793 or 3rd Frimaire in Year II, the churches of Paris were closed and the public reading of the Bible forbidden.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Law of 14 Frimaire centralizing power in the hands of the Committee of Public Safety
Chronology 2007
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