sans-culottic
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sans-culotte + -ic.
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[edit]sans-culottic (comparative more sans-culottic, superlative most sans-culottic)
- Relating to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter II, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 12:
- Falling Bastilles, Insurrections of Women, thousands of smoking Manorhouses, a country bristling with no crop but that of Sansculottic steel[.]
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References
[edit]- “sans-culottic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.