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sans-culottism
Variant of sans-culotte
noun
- a revolutionary: term of contempt applied by the aristocrats to the republicans of the poorly clad French Revolutionary army, who substituted pantaloons for knee breeches
- any radical or revolutionary
Related Forms:
- sans-culottic adjective or sans-culottish
- sans-culottism noun
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