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Directoire style
Directoire style Di`rec`toire" style (Dressmaking) A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes.

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- The Directory (also called Directorate; French: le Directoire [diʁɛktwaʁ] ) was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 26...
- Directoire style (French pronunciation: [diʁɛktwaʁ] ) was a period in the decorative arts, fashion, and especially furniture design in France concurrent...
- expressed in the "Louis XVI style", and the second in the styles called "Directoire" and Empire. The Rococo style remained po****r in Italy until the Napoleonic...
- for a balloon journey in her low-cut thin-looking Directoire dress. Fashion plate of white Directoire dress worn with contrasting red shawl with a Gr****...
- director. In fencing, the tournament director is known by the French name, directoire technique (commonly abbreviated to DT). Tournament director (bridge) Tournament...
- External link in |via= (help) Alfred Richard Allinson, The Days of the Directoire, J. Lane, (1910), p. 190 "Vivienne Westwood, British designer and activist...
- businesses. Groupe BPCE has had three chief executives (French: président du directoire) so far: François Pérol (July 2009 - May 2018) Laurent Mignon (June 2018...
- the French state. The previous fashionable style in France had been the Directoire style, a more austere and minimalist form of Neoclassicism that replaced...
- shorter waistcoats, white cravats and pantaloons, this became known as directoire style. By the early 19th-century Regency era, dark dress tailcoats with...
- Chinoiserie Fête galante Neoclassicism Goût grec Louis XVI style Adam style Directoire style Neoclassical architecture in Milan Picturesque Colonial art Art...