📚 noun • entry_id 42660
sans-culotte
/sanzkjuːˈlɒt/
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sin pantalon
A plebeian Parisian, especially a lower-class republican during the French Revolution.
More's sensational attacks on Paine's Rights of Man [...] were echoed in prints, mass-produced by Reeves's Association, which contrasted the happy condition of the English cottager…
One necessary fashion item for the dutiful sans-culotte, for example, was the red cap (bonnet rouge), which was alleged to recall the cap worn in Antiquity by emancipated slaves.
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