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1. (n.) sans-culotte
a radical in the French Revolution.
2. sans-culotte
a extreme republican or revolutionary.
Etymology: (1780–90; < F: lit., without knee breeches)
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1. (noun) sans-culotte
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
2. (noun) sans-culotte
hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin
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