Culottes definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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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!

—Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete

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

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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