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- noun Alternative form of
sans-culotte .
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Examples
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I am one of the dispossessed, a sansculotte, a proletarian, or, in simpler phraseology addressed to your understanding, a tramp. '
Local Color 2010
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Some looked more like courtiers than republicans, while others affected the style of the sansculotte.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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The editor, named Spargo, was impressed after reading Clay-Randolph's maiden effort, especially coming from a man who said he was "one of the dispossessed, a sansculotte, a proletarian ... a tramp."
“And must I. . .who am weary, travel always your trail until I die?” 2008
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Some looked more like courtiers than republicans, while others affected the style of the sansculotte.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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Some looked more like courtiers than republicans, while others affected the style of the sansculotte.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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In the hope of landing a fat consultancy contract with a confused minister or with a terror-stricken central banker, with a quadriplegic stock exchange or with a dying industry lobby, with sansculotte trade unions or with gullible Western NGOs - they gypsy around, living off tattered suitcases in shabby hotels, yearning to strike gold in the next station of their mendicant's journey.
The Expat Experts 2006
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‘Two sansculotte poets: John Freeth and Joseph Mather’, in Lucas, John, ed. Writing and Radicalism, Harlow: Longman, 1996, pp. 61-83.
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[15] Charles Hobday, ‘Two sansculotte poets: John Freeth and Joseph Mather’, in John Lucas, ed. Writing and Radicalism, Harlow: Longman, 1996, p. 62.
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Their influence in government would be infinitely more wholesome than the influence of the white sansculotte, the riff-raff, the idlers, the rowdies, and the outlaws.
History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest Edward A. Johnson
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Verman roared with delight, appearing to be wholly unconscious that the lids of his right eye were swollen shut and that his attire, not too finical before the struggle, now entitled him to unquestioned rank as a sansculotte.
Penrod 1914
whichbe commented on the word sansculotte
Strong republican; democrat or violent revolutionary. (from Phrontistery)
May 23, 2008
trivet commented on the word sansculotte
Even though I know the sans-culottes actually wore pants, I do love the mental image of a bunch of het-up parisians milling around in their skivvies.
May 23, 2008