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Meaning of sans culotte

- 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.
- Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.