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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...
- shorter waistcoats, white cravats and pantaloons, this became known as directoire style. By the early 19th-century Regency era, dark dress tailcoats with...
- from 31 October 1795 to 9 November 1799 during the Directory (French: Directoire) period of the French Revolution. The Council of Five Hundred was established...
- separately. In fencing, the tournament director is known by the French name, directoire technique (commonly abbreviated to DT). Tournament director (bridge) Tournament...
- the French state. The previous fashionable style in France had been the Directoire style, a more austere and minimalist form of Neoclassicism that replaced...
- 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****...
- 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...
- Year III, during the period commonly known as the Directory (French: Directoire), from 22 August 1795 until 9 November 1799, roughly the second half of...
- David showing her in the height of Neoclassical fashion, reclining on a Directoire style sofa in a simple Empire line dress with almost bare arms, and short...