Fructidor

American  

[fryk-tee-dawr] / frük tiˈdɔr /

noun

1. (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the twelfth month of the year, extending from August 18 to September 16.

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Fructidor British  

/ fryktidɔr /

noun

1. the month of fruit: the twelfth month of the French Revolutionary calendar, extending from Aug 19 to Sept 22

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Etymology

Origin of Fructidor

1785–95; < French < Latin frūcti- fructi- + Greek dôron gift

Example Sentences

The chief result of the 18th Fructidor was a return, with slight mitigation, to the revolutionary government.

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by Mignet, M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis)

After the 18th Fructidor; finding the directory too powerful, and the inactivity of the continent too dangerous for him, he accepted the expedition to Egypt, that he might not fall, and might not be forgotten.

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by Mignet, M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis)

We have seen by the lingering condition of the negociations for peace, that nothing was to be expected from them, in the situation that things stood prior to the 18th Fructidor.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas

This was known as the coup d'etat of Fructidor.

From The Psychology of Revolution by Le Bon, Gustave

This led to the revolt of the Thirteenth Vendémiaire, and afterwards to the coup d'état of the Eighteenth Fructidor.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre by Morley, John