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Definition of: sansculotte
(sanz′ky
·lot′, Fr. sä
·kü·lôt′) noun
1. A revolutionary: first applied by the aristocrats as a term of contempt for those who started the revolution of 1789; later it became a popular name for one of a revolutionary mob; a Jacobin.
2. Any revolutionary republican or radical.
3. Any ragged or strangely dressed person. [<F, lit., without knee breeches]
—sans′cu·lot′tic adjective
—sans′·cu·lot′·tism noun
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