décadi

noun

The tenth day of the decade (ten-day week) in the French Republican Calendar, superseding Sunday as a day of rest.

OriginFrench décadi →
First used 18th c.
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Meanings

noundécadi (plural décadis)

plural décadis · alternative decadi

  1. historicalThe tenth day of the decade (ten-day week) in the French Republican Calendar, superseding Sunday as a day of rest.First known use 18th c.

    [T]he gladness I have felt in France on a Sunday, or decadi, which I caught from the faces around me, was a sentiment more truly religious than all the stupid silliness which the streets of London ever inspired where the Sabbath is so decorously observed.

    1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 59

Origin

  1. Frenchdécadi
  2. Englishdécadi

From French décadi.

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APA

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Chicago

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