sansculottid
(sænzkjuːˈlɒtɪd)
Also -ide.
[a. F. sansculottide, f. sansculotte (see above).]
One of the five (in leap-years six) complementary days added at the end of the month Fructidor of the Republican Calendar; pl., the festivities held during these days. Also attrib. in sansculottid days.
| 1813 Southey in Q. Rev. X. 96 The festivals in their new Calendar were called Sans Culottides. 1877 Morley Robespierre in Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 93 If Greece..had its Olympian games, France too shall solemnize her sans-culottid days. 1904 Daily Chron. 19 July 4/7 Its five or six Sans-culottide days thrown in at the end of the year. |