sansculottic, a.
(sænzkjuːˈlɒtɪk)
[f. sansculotte + -ic. Cf. culottic.]
1. Pertaining to the sansculottes or to sansculottism; revolutionary.
| 1822 C. Butler Remin. xv. 211 The reader probably remembers the sans-culottic exhibitions, equally ridiculous and disgusting, of the Goddess of Reason. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. v. i, Those Sansculottic violent Gardes Fran{cced}aises, or Centre Grenadiers. 1903 Q. Rev. July 133 The rising storm of sansculottic frenzy. |
2. allusively. Without breeches, unbreeched; hence, inadequately or improperly clothed.
| 1833 Carlyle Misc. Ess., Diderot (1888) V. 54 He is utterly unclean, scandalous, shameless, sansculottic-samoeidic. 1871 Kingsley At Last iii, He would not have gone on ordinary days in a sansculottic state. He would have worn that most comfortable of loose nether garments..slops. 1883 Times 13 Feb. 9 These poor wretches were denied clothes altogether, and..there is a sort of fitness in the accompaniment of bad language which they provided for their sansculottic Sunday. |