Sans-culotte

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.

II. Sans-culotte ·noun 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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