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)

At last, on the 17th Fructidor, the legislative body thought of procuring the assistance of the militia of Vendémiaire, and it decreed, on the motion of Pichegru, the formation of the national guard.

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

Fructidor, fruk-ti-dōr′, n. the twelfth month in the French revolutionary calendar, Aug. 18-Sept.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

In the coup d’�tat of Fructidor 1797 he made himself serviceable to Barras, who in 1798 appointed him to be French ambassador to the Cisalpine republic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

In the council of Five Hundred, Bourdon belonged to the party of “Clichyens,” composed of disguised royalists, against whom the directors made the coup d’�tat of the 18th Fructidor.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various