Thermidor
Americannoun
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Also called Fervidor. (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the 11th month of the year, extending from July 19 to August 17.
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(sometimes lowercase) lobster thermidor.
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Etymology
Origin of Thermidor
1820–30; < French < Greek thérm ( ē ) heat + dôr ( on ) gift; cf. -i-
Example Sentences
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Thermidor, as defined by Messrs. Haenni and Drevon, marked “the moment when the revolution confronted political reality” and was “forced to compromise on its initial ideas and promises.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025
You are an artist, things are going your way, and it is 9 Thermidor, Year Two — or July 27, 1794, before your fellow revolutionaries changed the calendar.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022
In Iceland, passengers on the Viking Sky consoled themselves with meals of lobster Thermidor and Dover sole after similarly being turned away from nearly every port they intended to visit.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2021
And for the authors of the cockroach application — Jason Li, Melissa Thermidor, and Amanda Hickman — that includes the aftermath of a nuclear war.
From The Verge • Nov. 25, 2020
Thermidor, ther-mi-dōr′, n. the eleventh month in the calendar of the first French Republic, lasting from the 19th of July to the 18th of August.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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