sans-culotte

See also: sansculotte

Contents

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• sansculotte

EtymologyEdit

From French sans-culotte.

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

sans-culotte (plural sans-culottes)

1. 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.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

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

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

TranslationsEdit

sans-culotte

• Esperanto: senkulotulo
• French: sans-culotte (fr) m

AnagramsEdit

• least counts

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From sans + culotte.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃kylɔt/

NounEdit

sans-culotte m (plural sans-culottes)

1. sans-culotte, peasant

AnagramsEdit

• cloutassent, consultâtes

Further readingEdit

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