culotte

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They said he was a good sans-culotte, and they were going to put him into a hole in the public churchyard like other sand-culottes; and he was carried away, but where the body was thrown I never heard.

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  • A sans-culotte, who lived near by and whose suspicions had been aroused, followed him one evening. —  Which? or, Between Two Women
  • They said he was a good sans-culotte, and they were going to put him into a hole in the public churchyard like other sand-culottes; and he was carried away, but where the body was thrown I never heard. —  Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850
  • Beauharnais, the man of the old rιgime, who had embraced the new ideas with so much ardor, this grand lord who got himself treated like a sans-culotte was guillotined four days before Robespierre, whose death would have saved him. —  The Court of the Empress Josephine
  • One of these represented him in the ragged garb of a sans-culotte, pale and trembling on his knees, with bewildered looks and his hair standing upright on his head like pointed horns, tearing the map of the world to pieces, and, to save his life, offering each of his generals a slice, who in return regarded him with looks of contempt mixed with pity I have just heard of a new plot, or rather a league against Bonaparte's ambition. —  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • De Menou, by turns a nobleman and a sans-culotte, a Christian and a —  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
 

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  1. French, breeches, diminutive of cul, rump, from Latin cūlus; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.
 

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