SANS-CULOTTE


Meaning of SANS-CULOTTE in English

[ ˌsan(z)kjʊ'lɒt ]

■ noun

1》 a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution.

2》 an extreme republican or revolutionary.

Derivatives

sans-culottism noun

Origin

Fr., lit. 'without knee breeches'.

Concise Oxford English vocab.      Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка.