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  • noun Plural form of sansculotte.

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Examples

  • Mays 'note, Robespierre defended Barrere against the sansculottes in

    Annotations 2007

  • The sansculottes ran into La Force prison, killed four hundred there, and tossed the heads about for sport.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • The sansculottes ran into La Force prison, killed four hundred there, and tossed the heads about for sport.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • The sansculottes ran into La Force prison, killed four hundred there, and tossed the heads about for sport.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • The speculator in grains at Troyes starved in 1793 and 1794 the sansculottes of Paris as badly, and even worse, than the German armies brought on to French soil by the Versailles conspirators.

    The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

  • Their nudity makes them appear to me like sansculottes in Grecian helmets ....

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. 1918

  • I would willingly leave him to the herald’s college, which the philosophy of the sansculottes (prouder by far than all the Garters, and Norroys, and Clarencieux, and Rouge Dragons, that ever pranced in a procession of what his friends call aristocrats and despots) will abolish with contumely and scorn.

    Paras. 40-59 1909

  • The desultory group of six _sansculottes_ attracted little or no attention, and Sir Percy boldly challenged every passer-by.

    I Will Repay Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • No one knew in the morning if his head would still be on his own shoulders in the evening, or if it would be held up by Citizen Samson the headsman, for the sansculottes of Paris to see.

    I Will Repay Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • The news of the conquest of the Pays Bas by the _sansculottes_, received with bewilderment and disgust in Piccadilly, aroused wild hopes among the weavers of Spitalfields.

    William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

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