Definitions for Directoire

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Directoire Di·rec·toire

Spelling: [dee-rek-twar]

IPA: /di rɛkˈtwar/

Directoire is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 323 anagrams from letters in Directoire (cdeeiiorrt).

Definitions for Directoire

noun

1. French History. directory (def 5).

adjective

1. 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.
2. (of costume) in the style of the period of the French Directory.

Origin of Directoire

From French; See origin at directory

Examples for Directoire

Two years later the "Directoire" pronounced in favour of maintaining the 10-grm.

Julie was as quaint and out of time as a Directoire print, even in a city where time stands still as it does in old New Orleans.

Linda well remembered that the last time Ross had taken too much her mother's Directoire wrap had been completely torn in half.

The Directoire dress points to another period of republican simplicity, anarchy, and the rule of a popular despot.

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

Under the Directoire a club held its meetings there; and later, it was converted into a warehouse for corn and flour.

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

The Directoire reaction towards simplicity was influenced by English fashion.

Whenever such ethereal girlish figures wear the costume of the Directoire period, Marcus Stone is their father.

It is as yet only tentatively that they adopt the mode of the Directoire.