'Sans-culotte' definitions:
Definition of 'Sans-culotte'
From: GCIDE
- Sans-culotte \Sans`-cu`lotte"\ (F. ?; E. ?), n. [F., without breeches.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin. [1913 Webster]