sans-culotte

plural sans-culottes · alternative sansculotte

1. A plebeian Parisian, especially a lower-class republican during the French Revolution.First known use 18th c.

   One necessary fashion item for the dutiful sans-culotte, for example, was the red cap (bonnet rouge), which was alleged to recall the cap worn in Antiquity by emancipated slaves.

   2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 454

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   More's sensational attacks on Paine's Rights of Man [...] were echoed in prints, mass-produced by Reeves's Association, which contrasted the happy condition of the English cottager to the brutalised domestic life of the Parisian sans-culotte.

   2007, Barbara Taylor, ‘Guinea Pigs’, London Review of Books 29:3, page 10