sans-culotte
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French sans-culotte.
Pronunciation
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:
Derived terms
- sans-culottic, sansculottic
- sans-culottide, sansculottide
- sans-culottides, sansculottides
- sans-culottism, sansculottism
- sans-culottist, sansculottist
Translations
sans-culotte
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