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/sanzkjuːˈlɒt/ · noun
A plebeian Parisian, especially a lower-class republican during the French Revolution..
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.
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 to the brutalised domestic life of the Parisian sans-culotte.
Use sans-culotte when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sans-culotte means A plebeian Parisian, especially a lower-class republican during the French Revolution..
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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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