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- noun Alternative spelling of
sans-culottide .
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Sansculottide; and name it Festival of the Revolution.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
MiketheViking90 commented on the word Sansculottide
are holidays following the last month of the year on the French Republican Calendar which was used following the French Revolution from approximately 1793 to 1805
literally translated to "without pants"
March 22, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word Sansculottide
Wow.
April 4, 2011
yarb commented on the word Sansculottide
Wasn't there a "panvocalic pants" list somewhere?
April 4, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word Sansculottide
Yes. But should we add this if it means without pants?
April 4, 2011
yarb commented on the word Sansculottide
True, but you have to have had pants - or the idea of pants - to be without them. It's very French actually, being and nothingness and all that palaver.
April 4, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word Sansculottide
Wellington is not in this cafe, Paul Valéry is no longer here, and Sartre is not wearing pants?
April 4, 2011
yarb commented on the word Sansculottide
Yes, that's the idea. Ou sont les culottes d'antan?
April 4, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word Sansculottide
That explains a lot about Simone de Beauvoir.
April 4, 2011
yarb commented on the word Sansculottide
...and why they spent all that time sitting around in cafes instead of standing proudly at the bar like ordinary folk.
April 4, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Sansculottide
Make mine a kir sansculottes!
A nos femmes!
A nos chevaux!
Et a ceux qui leur montent,
Avec ou sans eperons!
April 4, 2011
bilby commented on the word Sansculottide
Source of that early French video game hit Pants Pants Revolution.
April 5, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word Sansculottide
Wait. Are "eperons" spurs?
April 5, 2011
sionnach commented on the word Sansculottide
Why, yes. Yes, they are.
April 6, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word Sansculottide
I'll drink to that.
April 6, 2011
mollusque commented on the word Sansculottide
See Sansculottides.
April 6, 2011
bilby commented on the word Sansculottide
Ah, beware the Sanculottides of March.
April 7, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word Sansculottide
It is the Simone Weil way!
April 7, 2011