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Word: sansculotte (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • generalized to any radical or even violent extremist in politics
  • in 1792, the French aristocrats, who wore fashionable breeches, applied the term to their despised extremist adversaries in the French Revolution, who had symbolically switched to pantaloons and soon adopted the term
  • lower class person
  • person who lacks culture and refinement

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