sansculotte

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He was thinking out a design, -- for a sansculotte, in red cap and _carmagnole_, who was to supersede the discredited knave of spades in his pack of cards.

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  1. Literally, one who is without breeches: a name given to the poorer men of Paris who were prominent in the first French Revolution and took part in the attacks upon the court, the Bastille, etc. Its precise origin has been much disputed. It appears as a designation willingly assumed from the very beginning of its use.
  2. Hence An advanced Republican; a revolutionist; by extension, a communist or anarchist.

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  1. from French sansculotte (see def.); from sans, without, + culotte, breeches, from cul, breech, from Latin culus, breech: see recoil.
 

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