Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural a type of women's trousers with wide legs cut loose and full so as to resemble a skirt.

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  • noun A type of loose shorts which look like a skirt; a divided skirt.

Etymologies

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From French culottes.

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Examples

  • Daily costumes included black velvet dresses for day, low-cut and bare-backed evening gowns, jackets and coats of rich and rare materials to be worn with velvet skirts by day or satin culottes by night, black lace mantillas, small sable hats, and an umbrella stick of platinum with her name set in diamonds on top.

    The Shoe Queen: Rita Lydig | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • Now I do look in the dictionary, and I find, for the word culottes -- breeches. '

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • Now I do look in the dictionary, and I find, for the word culottes -- breeches. '

    Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Complete Mme. Du Hausset

  • Now I do look in the dictionary, and I find, for the word culottes -- breeches. '

    Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 5 Mme. Du Hausset

  • "They stole one hundred and forty five louis d'or and paid me with an acquittance for a tax for the sans-culottes, which is another robbery done to the citizens of this commune where I have neither home nor possessions."

    The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • This may be least true of the long "culottes", trousers most closely resembling a skirt, and at best mistakable for a skirt, but insofar as "culottes" establish the principle of dividing woman's outward apparel from the waist down, they merely disguise the grave disorder.

    The Modesty of His Lordship Francis 2006

  • This may be least true of the long "culottes", trousers most closely resembling a skirt, and at best mistakable for a skirt, but insofar as "culottes" establish the principle of dividing woman's outward apparel from the waist down, they merely disguise the grave disorder.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Francis 2006

  • Like the shrug, like culottes I don’t think they’re called culottes, though, in this year’s incarantion, like the ballon skirt that have all returned to the runway from my middle school melodrama to punish me for shunning fashionable them for “classic” OP parachute pants and Izod shirts, so also does food go to retro comfort food, fondue, and cupcakes.

    Seoul is to Food What Moscow is to Fashion Week – Tofu-Ya 2005

  • Like the shrug, like culottes I don’t think they’re called culottes, though, in this year’s incarantion, like the ballon skirt that have all returned to the runway from my middle school melodrama to punish me for shunning fashionable them for “classic” OP parachute pants and Izod shirts, so also does food go to retro comfort food, fondue, and cupcakes.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • The term sans-culottes, meaning "without breeches," implied that the members of this political group were (1 point) women, because they wore skirts. very poor and could not afford pants. pacifists who did not use guns. ordinary patriots without fine clothes.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

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