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Meaning Of Sans-culotte
n.
A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name
of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme
republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the
upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.
n.
Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent
revolutionist; a Jacobin.