Vendémiaire
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Vendémiaire
< French, equivalent to vendémi- (< Latin vindēmia vintage) + -aire -ary
Example Sentences
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The website Navy Recognition said Friday the Vendemiaire, home-ported in the French territory of New Caledonia, is on a two-month cruise in the area that has included a joint operation with the USS Murphy, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.
From Washington Times
In a separate report Saturday, the PLA Daily said a destroyer squadron from the South Sea Fleet on Friday conducted drills in the South China Sea with a French frigate, the Vendémiaire, which was on a four-day visit.
Jean," he began, "I've never told you how much I admired the way you held that gun, on the Thirteenth Vendémiaire, in spite of that leering devil above you.
From Project Gutenberg
At the end of about a month's sojourn in Vannes, certain then that I could continue to dwell there without danger, I wrote to my wife to rejoin me in Brittany, with her mother and our son, whom she had named Marik, and who was born the 7th Vendemiaire, year III.
From Project Gutenberg
The latter hastily brought up the cannon from the camp of Sablons, made an able strategic disposition of his forces, and, with the aid of the patriots of '93, wiped out the royalist insurrection before the Church of St. Roche, on the 13th Vendemiaire, year IV.
From Project Gutenberg
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