sans-culotte


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sans-culotte /ˌsan(z)kjʊˈlɒt/
noun
  • 1 a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution.
  • 2 an extreme republican or revolutionary.
– derivatives
sans-culottism noun.
– origin Fr., lit. ‘without knee breeches’.
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