sansculotticadj.
/sanzkjuːˈlɒtɪk/ 1. Pertaining to the sansculottes or to sansculottism; revolutionary.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [adjective]
revolutionary1694
sansculottish1798
sansculottic1822
red1848
Bolshevizing1920
1822 C. Butler Reminisc. xv. 211 The reader probably remembers the sans-culottic exhibitions, equally ridiculous and disgusting, of the Goddess of Reason.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. i. 270 Those Sansculottic violent Gardes Françaises, or Centre Grenadiers.
1903 Q. Rev. July 133 The rising storm of sansculottic frenzy.
2. allusively. Without breeches, unbreeched; hence, inadequately or improperly clothed.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > improperly dressed
dishabited1648
sansculottic1833
1833 T. Carlyle in Foreign & Q. Rev. Apr. 307 He [sc. Diderot] is utterly unclean, scandalous, shameless, sansculottic-samoeidic.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. iii. 121 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.
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