sans-culotte

sans-culotte is a   Noun

Definition:

[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.

[2] Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.

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