Junipery

• January → almonthst

• juniper: an evergreen shrub whose berries are used to flavour gin

Commentary

junipery or febrewery, marracks or alebrill or the ramping riots of pouriose and froriose.

After references to the months of January, February, March, and April, Joyce surprisingly interjects two months from the French Revolutionary calendar of 1793-1805. The calendar is in four groups of three rhyming months. Nivôse, Pluviôse, and Ventôse are the fourth, fifth, and sixth months, meaning snowy, rainy, and windy.

Here, pouriose = Pluviôse + pour (as in downpour)

Three months end in "ose" (see example) and three others begin with "F"; the latter are Floréal, Frimaire, and Fructidor. "Froriose" seems to be the word "roar" (as in roaring wind, windy, Ventôse) combined with Floréal (flowery).