‖ décadi
[Fr.: f. Gr. δέκα ten + -di day in Lundi, etc.]
The tenth day of the ‘decade’ in the French Republican calendar, superseding Sunday as a day of rest.
| 1795 Burke Let. to W. Elliot Wks. VII. 358 Annulling the Calvinistick sabbath, and establishing the decadi of atheism in all his states. 1801 H. M. Williams Sk. Fr. Rep. I. xxii. 323 The fossé, formed into a walk, furnishes a ball-room to the villagers on the decadi. |