sansculotte
- Noun. person who lacks culture and refinement.
- Noun. lower class person.
- Noun. in 1792, the French aristocrats, who wore fashionable breeches, applied the term to their despised extremist adversaries in the French Revolution, who had symbolically switched to pantaloons and soon adopted the term.
- Noun. generalized to any radical or even violent extremist in politics.
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