Sans-culotte
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A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name
of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme
republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the
upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons. -
Liberal, radical, extreme [revolutionary] or [affiliated] with counter culture. From [the French Revolution]’s extreme revolutionary political movement: Sans-culottes.
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