culottes
or cu·lotte
[koo-lots, kyoo-]
- women's trousers, usually knee-length or calf-length, cut full to resemble a skirt.
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Origin of culottes
1835–45; < French: literally, breeches, equivalent to cul rump + -ottes, plural of -otte, feminine of -ot noun suffix. See culet
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The following one was new to me as a name, not as a dish, which was simple enough, "Culottes de bœuf à la fermière."
I cite the original Latin, as the word calig has been wrongly rendered by the French translator into culottes.
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain.William H. Prescott
culottes
- women's flared trousers cut to look like a skirt
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Word Origin
C20: from French, literally: breeches, from cul bottom; see culet
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Word Origin and History for culottes
n.
"a divided skirt," 1911, from French culotte "breeches" (16c.), a diminutive of cul "bottom, backside, backside, anus," from Latin culus "bottom, fundament." Earlier, in the singular cullote, it was used to mean "knee-breeches" (1842). Por le cul bieu "By God's arse" was an Old French oath.
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