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Definition of Sansculotte
1. 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.
Definition of Sansculotte
1. Noun. (alternative form of sans-culotte) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sansculotte
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sansculotte
Literary usage of Sansculotte
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Terror by Félix Gras (1898)
"As Vauclair pushed his way toward the table, his progress was barred by a huge
sansculotte who never budged when Vauclair stuck his elbow into him. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"Reynard; The Word- a sansculotte ; a Democrat ; Citizen Vol- ... The sansculotte
Peer. Duke of Clarence (William IV.).—A True British Tar ; Nauticus. ..."
3. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"... environment (& Taine & St. Simon) ; & now I lay the book down once more, &
recognize that I am a sansculotte!—And not a pale, characterless sansculotte ..."
4. History of the French Revolution by Heinrich von Sybel (1869)
"His only feeling on undertaking this office was one of malicious joy, at the
thought of making the young Prince into a filthy sansculotte, and at the same ..."
5. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1892)
"... that the epithet sansculotte first gets applied to indigent Patriotism; in 'the
last age we had Gilbert sansculotte, the indigent Poet.1 Destitute- ..."
6. The Terror by Félix Gras (1898)
"As Vauclair pushed his way toward the table, his progress was barred by a huge
sansculotte who never budged when Vauclair stuck his elbow into him. ..."
7. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"Reynard; The Word- a sansculotte ; a Democrat ; Citizen Vol- ... The sansculotte
Peer. Duke of Clarence (William IV.).—A True British Tar ; Nauticus. ..."
8. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"... environment (& Taine & St. Simon) ; & now I lay the book down once more, &
recognize that I am a sansculotte!—And not a pale, characterless sansculotte ..."
9. History of the French Revolution by Heinrich von Sybel (1869)
"His only feeling on undertaking this office was one of malicious joy, at the
thought of making the young Prince into a filthy sansculotte, and at the same ..."
10. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1892)
"... that the epithet sansculotte first gets applied to indigent Patriotism; in 'the
last age we had Gilbert sansculotte, the indigent Poet.1 Destitute- ..."
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