Definition of "thermidor" [ther•mi•dor]

• The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under vendémiaire. (noun)

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• "Christianity sounds simple, but then there’s also God and the Holy Ghost and Mary and consider that the whole thing started-off with just 10 commandments and before you know it eating lobster thermidor is as big a sin as wearing certain fabric combinations but incest is okay if you are drunk and a;; this whatnot."
• "And then re-introduced to it on the half shell, glazed with a thermidor sauce, decorated with crisp, salty sprigs of samphire, all of which makes you want to lick the shell clean, to dig your tongue into every nook and cranny."
• "When we prepare (and, by default, reinterpret) a classic lobster thermidor, communicating with its 1891 inception on the Boulevard Saint-Denis in Paris, we are in effect creating our own elegy, our own dramatic monologue of the gustatory sort, the dead speaking to us in vocables and edibles and, dare I say, tongues."