Messidor
(in the French Revolutionary calendar) the tenth month of the year, extending from June 19 to July 18.
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How to use Messidor in a sentence
The date is doubtless 27 Messidor (July 16), and the fte alluded to that of July 14.
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine | Henry Foljambe HallMessidor brought its quota of wild roses in the hedgerows, just as archaic June had done.
I Will Repay | Baroness Emmuska OrczyOn the night of Messidor 9, Labussire abstracted the papers relating to the imprisoned actors and carried them off.
Later Queens of the French Stage | H. Noel WilliamsOn the fifteenth came the first production in Germany of the French opera Messidor before a crowded audience at the opera house.
An American Girl in Munich | Mabel W. Daniels
British Dictionary definitions for Messidor
/ French (mesidɔr) /
the month of harvest: the tenth month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from June 20 to July 19
Origin of Messidor
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