VENDEMIAIRE
\vˈɛndɪmɪˌa͡ɪɹə], \vˈɛndɪmɪˌaɪɹə], \v_ˈɛ_n_d_ɪ_m_ɪ__ˌaɪ_ɹ_ə]\
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By Noah Webster.
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[Fr.] The first month of the French Republican calendar, beginning at the autumnal equinox and ending thirty days later. In this calendar the year was divided into twelve months of thirty days, with five additional days for festivals, and every fourth year six. The months were divided into decades, and the days into ten hours of a hundred minutes each. The months were named from the botanical or agricultural characteristics of each, their names being consecutively Vendemiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire, Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose, Germinal, Floreal, Prairial, Messidor, Thermidor (or Fervidor), and Fructidor. This absurd scheme was set aside by Napoleon, who restored the old calendar in 1806.
By Henry Percy Smith