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sans-culotte
[ sanz-kyoo-lot, -koo-; French sahn-ky-lawt ]
noun
- (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
- any extreme republican or revolutionary.
sans-culotte
/ ˌsænzkjʊˈlɒt; sɑ̃kylɔt /
noun
- during the French Revolution
- (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
- (later) any revolutionary, esp one having extreme republican sympathies
- any revolutionary extremist
Derived Forms
- ˌԲ-ˈdzٳپ, noun
- ˌԲ-ˈdzٳپ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- Բ-·dz·پ [sanz-ky, oo, -, lot, -ik, -k, oo, -], adjective
- Բ-·dzt adjective
- Բ-·dzt noun
- Բ-·dzt noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sans-culotte1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sans-culotte1
Example Sentences
The author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn had been brought up on tales of an aristocratic ancestor who came to London during the French Revolution, fleeing the guillotine and the militant sans-culottes.
The sans-culottes of the French Revolution and the yellow vests of the French revolt centuries later.
It was an uprising of enslaved people—the “true sans-culottes of the colonies,” according to one French Republican leader—in Saint-Domingue that forced the 1794 abolition of slavery.
Bastille Day, marking 229 years since the sans-culotte decided they’d had enough of the Ancien Régime and stormed the fortress, a crucial stage of the French Revolution.
It assumes that this “base” is a rabid, unthinking multitude of sans-culottes who must be obeyed.
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