Directoire

[ dee-rek-twar ]

/ di rɛkˈtwar /

adjective

noting or pertaining to the style of French furnishings and decoration of the mid-1790s, characterized by an increasing use of Greco-Roman forms along with an introduction, toward the end, of Egyptian motifs: usually includes the Consulate period.

(of costume) in the style of the period of the French Directory.

noun

French History. directory(def 5).

Origin of Directoire

From French; see origin at directory

Example sentences from the Web for directoire

The next year the second coalition was formed, and the Directoire applied to the Belgian departments the new law of conscription.

Belgium |Emile Cammaerts
Distrusted by both parties and feared by the Directoire, she found it advisable after a few months to retire to Coppet.

The Women of the French Salons |Amelia Gere Mason
It is as yet only tentatively that they adopt the mode of the Directoire.

The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner |Charles Dudley Warner
No. 48 was the well-known dancing-hall, Pavillon de lchiquier, before and under the Directoire.

Historic Paris |Jetta S. Wolff

Everybody said that the world had not seen such undressing in public since the Grecian revival at the time of the Directoire.

What Will People Say? |Rupert Hughes

British Dictionary definitions for directoire

Directoire

/ French (dirɛktwar) /

noun

history the French Directory See Directory

adjective

of, in, or relating to a decorative style of the end of the 18th century in France; a form of neoclassicism

characteristic of women's dress during the French Directory, typically an almost transparent dress with the waistline under the bust

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Directoire

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Example sentences from the Web for directoire

British Dictionary definitions for directoire

noun

adjective