sans-culotte

• sansculotte

From French sans-culotte (“(one) without pants”).

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

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, 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.

• least counts

From sans + culotte.

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.ky.lɔt/

sans-culotte m (plural sans-culottes)

1. sans-culotte, peasant

• “sans-culotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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