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BRUMAIRE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Brumaire mean?
• BRUMAIRE (noun)
The noun BRUMAIRE has 1 sense:
1. second month of the Revolutionary calendar (October and November); the month of mist
Familiarity information: BRUMAIRE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Second month of the Revolutionary calendar (October and November); the month of mist
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Brumaire" is a kind of...):
Revolutionary calendar month (a month in the Revolutionary calendar)
Holonyms ("Brumaire" is a part of...):
Revolutionary calendar (the calendar adopted by the first French Republic in 1793 and abandoned in 1805; dates were calculated from Sept. 22, 1792)
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