Definitions for sans-culotte

sans-culotte sans-cu·lotte

Spelling: [sanz-kyoo-lot, -koo-; French sah
IPA: /ˌsænz kyʊˈlɒt, -kʊ-; French sɑ̃ küˈlɔt/

Sans-Culotte is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 1171 anagrams from letters in sans-culotte (-acelnossttu).

Definitions for sans-culotte

noun

  1. (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  2. any extreme republican or revolutionary.

Origin of sans-culotte

1780-90; French: literally, without knee breeches

Examples for sans-culotte

Two men in sans-culotte costume were seated at a small table in the restaurant of Père Lefèvre.

But Boivin was a soldier, and a soldier is not a sans-culotte.

Hard names were not wanting either; Jefferson was ridiculed as a sans-culotte and red-legged Democrat.

A sans-culotte, who lived near by and whose suspicions had been aroused, followed him one evening.

Dr. Mivers was as much scouted as if he had been a sans-culotte.

Clearly the sans-culotte of Brussels was a mere tinsel imitation of the genuine article at Paris.

Fancy living in a room with David's sans-culotte Leonidas staring perpetually in your face!

"These are all sans-culotte literature, I take it," said his Lordship; but the youth was stupefied and silent.

Word Value for sans-culotte
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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