culottes

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Now I do look in the dictionary, and I find, for the word culottes--breeches Oh, please Your Majesty, we never call them by that name in England Voila done, j'ai raison We say "inexpressibles Ah, c'est mieux!

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  • The prediction came true during the French Revolution, when sans-culottes opened up his grave and scattered his bones to retaliate for his prophesy of the 1792 bloodshed. —  RIA Novosti
  • The rump area is heavily coated and forms culottes or pants.
  • The rear legs have the previously described culottes, and in mature dogs, light feathering from hock joint to the foot.
  • But at the very moment of victory the alliance between the Jacobins and the sans culottes, which made victory possible, fell apart. —  Asian
  • The differences lay not in the demands or the programmes of the Levellers and the sans culottes, but in the social forces which these political designations represented. —  Asian
 

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