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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Use "thermidor" in a sentence
"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."