Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman's full trousers cut to resemble a skirt. Often used in the plural.
Wiktionary
- n. Singular form of culottes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a divided skirt
Etymologies
- From the French (Wiktionary)
- French, breeches, diminutive of cul, rump, from Latin cūlus; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Soldiers wore a knee breeches called a culotte, it extended from the waist to just below the knee.”
“In all I would have to say the filet and the culotte were my favorites.”
“Fortunately, the Victorian era fashion industry co-opted the word "culotte" and introduced the "split-skirt" for women who rode bicycles or horses.”
“Related English includes recoil, as well as a sassy word imported from French, culotte.”
“Bottega Veneta Bottega Veneta designer Tomas Maier 's white piqué jacket and culotte were inspired by the '20s tennis player Suzanne Lenglen .”
“Bottega Veneta designer Tomas Maier's white piqué jacket and culotte were inspired by the '20s tennis player Suzanne Lenglen.”
“The $725 Wang shorts have a "more culotte-style leg" than the others she owns, Ms. Wodehouse says, a feature that "injects that tough Kate Moss 'my boyfriend is in a rock band' kind of thing.”
“The next day there was a memo saying, you know, bug off, no more of this culotte jazz, this is an office of business.”
Simon & Schuster: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor
“Sectional assemblies were typically the hotbeds of direct democracy and sans-culotte militancy.”
“Especially through its influence over sans-culotte activism, the Commune expanded its political role as the Revolution progressed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘culotte’.
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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srboisvert's Words
couverture, poffertjes, naif, endermatic, prepense, aspic, otalgia, curettage,, florid, piffling, pillock, mow and 164 more...
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Words With Good Mouth-Feel
Every word exists as a mouthful of air. Some mouthfuls feel better than others, and I list those words.
chortle, huffalump, calamitous, tarradiddle, purfle, boojum, whangdoodle, transfinite, vorpal, simony, scholia, perfidious and 17 more...
Tweets
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bilby Haha, that's cute! Dec 11, 2007
reesetee Nickname for the Pied-Billed Grebe, so called because only its feet are visible outside of its feathers. Dec 11, 2007