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PLUVIOSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fifth month of the Revolutionary calendar (January and February); the rainy month
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Pluviose" is a kind of...):
Revolutionary calendar month (a month in the Revolutionary calendar)
Holonyms ("Pluviose" is a part of...):
Revolutionary calendar (the calendar adopted by the first French Republic in 1793 and abandoned in 1805; dates were calculated from Sept. 22, 1792)