sans-culotte
See also: sansculotte
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From French sans-culotte (“(one) without pants”).
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sans-culotte (plural sans-culottes)
- A plebeian Parisian, especially a lower-class republican during the French Revolution. [from 18th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 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, page 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.
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sans-culotte m (plural sans-culottes)
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- “sans-culotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.