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Definition: Sans-culotte
Sans-culotte
\Sans`-cu`lotte"\ (F. ?; E. ?), n. [F., without
breeches.]
1. A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of
reproach given in the first French revolution to the
extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an
emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and
adopted pantaloons.
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2. Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent
revolutionist; a Jacobin.
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