— sans-culottic /sanz'kyoo lot"ik, -koo-/ , adj. — sans-culottish , adj. — sans-culottism , n. — sans-culottist , n.
/sanz'kyoo lot", -koo-/ ; Fr. /sahonn kyuu lawt"/ , n. , pl. sans-culottes /sanz'kyoo lots", -koo-/ ; Fr. /sahonn kyuu lawt"/ .
1. (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.
2. any extreme republican or revolutionary.
[ 1780-90; ]