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sannyasin |
sans |
sans culotte |
sans serif |
sans souci |
sans-culotte
| sans-culottic
| sans-culottism
| sans-souci
| sanscrit
| sansevieria
sans-culotte
CIDE DICTIONARY
sans-culotte, n. [F., without breeches.].
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin. [1913 Webster]
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