‖ sansculotterie
(sænzkjuːˈlɒtərɪ, as Fr. sɑ̃kylɔtri)
Also anglicized -ery.
[Fr., f. sansculotte (see above) + -erie -ery.]
1. The principles, spirit or behaviour characteristic of sansculottes.
| 1794 tr. Brissot to his Constituents 99 Certain hypocritical chiefs who talk continually of Sans Culotterie whilst they are affecting an insolent luxury. 1814 Coleridge Princ. Genial Crit. iii, The Sans-culotterie of a contemptuous ignorance. 1831 Blackw. Mag. XXX. 817 The hoof of modern Sansculotterie..will trample on the bowers of Chatsworth. a 1834 Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 231 Modern Unitarianism is..the sans-culotterie of religion. |
2. Sansculottes collectively.
| 1796 Burke Let. to Noble Ld. 72 The rabble rout of this Sans Culotterie of France. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. iii. ii, What profit were it for the Paris Sansculottery to insult us? |