Etymology

sans-culotte

Today it means: A plebeian Parisian, especially a lower-class republican during the French Revolution. Full definition →

First used 18th c.French sans-culotte
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromsans-culotte“(one) without pants”
  2. English todaysans-culotte

From French sans-culotte (“(one) without pants”).

First known use, by meaning

  • from 18th c. A plebeian Parisian, especially a lower-class republican during the French Revolution.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.