sansculotte

  1. Noun.  person who lacks culture and refinement.
  2. Noun.  lower class person.
  3. 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.
  4. Noun.  generalized to any radical or even violent extremist in politics.

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