Meanings of directoire in anglès

It was Caroline, robed in one of Anna's directoire nightgowns.

But the new deputies, like the old, were hostile to the discredited Directoire.

The vases and clock are Empire, the chairs Directoire, and footstools Louis XV.

The Directoire reaction towards simplicity was influenced by English fashion.

The setting was Directoire but the atmosphere was Back-to-School Mixer.

The best army and the best general of the Directoire were cut off in Egypt.

Boulay de la Meurthe, in his work, "Le Directoire et l'Expédition d'Egypte," ch.

The furniture, in line, shows a Directoire influence.

You know that 'Directoire' cabinet photo of Alice?

One feels an almost Quaker-like quality about the Directoire, whether of natural wood or plain painted surface.

Partly from weakness, partly to create a diversion, the Directoire was now drifting into a new war.

The Directoire dress points to another period of republican simplicity, anarchy, and the rule of a popular despot.

Had not Bonaparte systematically bled Italy of money and treasure the Directoire could not have conducted business so long.

And here they were, those touches, scattered more like the hints of fingerprints than fingerprints themselves over a Directoire armoire.

Distrusted by both parties and feared by the Directoire, she found it advisable after a few months to retire to Coppet.

While Bonaparte was invading Lombardy and attacking the great Austrian fortress of Mantua, the Directoire had to deal with conspiracy in Paris.