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Sans-culotte
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Sansˊ-cuˊlotte′
(F. [GREEK]; E. [GREEK])
, Noun.
[F., without breeches.]
1.
A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; – a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.
2.
Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.
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sans-culotte
sans-culotte
See also: sansculotte
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Noun
sans-culotte (plural sans-culottes)
- A plebian Parisian, especially a lower-class republican during the French Revolution. [from 18th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 454:
- One necessary fashion item for the dutiful sans-culotte, for example, was the red cap (bonnet rouge), which was alleged to recall the cap worn in Antiquity by emancipated slaves.
- 2007, Barbara Taylor, ‘Guinea Pigs’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 10:
- More's sensational attacks on Paine's Rights of Man [...] were echoed in prints, mass-produced by Reeves's Association, which contrasted the happy condition of the English cottager to the brutalised domestic life of the Parisian sans-culotte.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 454:
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French
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- IPA(key): /sɑ̃kylɔt/
Noun
sans-culotte m (plural sans-culottes)