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Thermidor
(θɜːmɪˈdɔː(r), ‖ tɛrmidɔr)
[Fr. (1793), f. Gr. θέρµη heat + δῶρον gift.]
1. The eleventh month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending (in 1794) from July 19 to August 17.
1801W. Dupré Neological French Dict. 276 Thermidor,..hot month... The 9th Thermidor answers to the 27th of July. 1802C. Wilmot Let. 30 July in Irish Peer (1920) 75 Paris, 30th July, 1802. 9 Thermidor. 1827Scott Napoleon Introd., The 9th Thermidor, or 27th July. 1842Brande Dict. Sc., etc. s.v. Thermidor, It was the month signalized by the overthrow of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror; thence commonly called the Revolution of Thermidor, and those who boasted of having participated in it called themselves Thermidorians.
b. lobster thermidor: see lobster1 5.
2. A moderate reaction following a revolution. [Cf. quot. 1842, sense 1.]
1938C. Brinton Anatomy of Revolution viii. 244 We shall have to call Thermidor a convalescence from the fever of revolution. 1960Commentary June 508/1 The retreat from ‘war communism’..did not lead to the revolutionary regime's overthrow by a new Thermidor. 1974tr. Wertheim's Evolution & Revolution 341 Should all such symptoms be taken as evidence that the Cultural Revolution..got stuck in a kind of Thermidor, and that consequently the fight of Mao and his allies against a Thermidor was a last stand, a losing battle? 1981Times 30 June 15/1 Iran is about to enter its Thermidor. |