sans-culotte

See also: sansculotte

English

Alternative forms

• sansculotte

Etymology

From French sans-culotte.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sanzkjuːˈlɒt/, /sɒ̃(ŋ)kjuːˈlɒt/

Noun

sans-culotte (plural sans-culottes)

1. A plebeian 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.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• sans-culottic, sansculottic
• sans-culottide, sansculottide
• sans-culottides, sansculottides

• sans-culottism, sansculottism
• sans-culottist, sansculottist

Translations

sans-culotte

• Esperanto: senkulotulo

• French: sans-culotte (fr) m
• Portuguese: sans-culotte m or f

Anagrams

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French

Etymology

From sans + culotte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.ky.lɔt/

Noun

sans-culotte m (plural sans-culottes)

1. sans-culotte, peasant

Further reading

• “sans-culotte” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

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