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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 mistplay

  Familiarity information: BRUMAIRE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BRUMAIRE (noun)


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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