sans-culotte
noun
(in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
sans-culottish
-
a word derived from
sans-culotte.
Example Sentences
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But no—you are just as sans-culottish and rash as I would have you.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot by John Morley
