Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or wearing breeches; hence, pertaining to the respectable classes of society: opposed to sansculottic.
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Examples
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What a strange, what a memorable period it was! involuntarily reminding one of an historic parallel in the roseate aspect presented by the early days of the first French revolution, when everybody had hailed as the dawning of a celestial morrow the putrescent glow of old corruption blending into the lurid fire of the coming _sans-culottic_ hell.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Under this my Gregorian chant, and beautiful wax-light phantasmagory, kindly hidden from you is an abyss of black doubts, scepticism, nay, sans-culottic Jacobinism, an orcus that has no bottom.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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For indeed is not the Dandy culottic, habilatory, by law of existence;
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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