Definition of Culotte

1. Noun. A divided skirt.

Generic synonyms: Skirt

Definition of Culotte

1. Noun. (singular of culottes) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Culotte

1. a divided skirt [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Culotte

culm
culmed
culmen
culmens
culmiferous
culminal
culminant
culminate
culminated
culminates
culminating
culmination
culminations
culming
culms
culotte (current term)
culottes
culpa
culpabilities
culpability
culpable
culpable negligence
culpableness
culpablenesses
culpably
culpae
culpatory
culprit
culprits
culrage

Literary usage of Culotte

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. England Under the House of Hanover: Its History and Condition During the by Thomas Wright (1848)
"Earl Stanhope, the " sans-culotte peer," figures in a multitude of caricatures, during this and subsequent years. In the one from which the accompanying cut ..."

2. The Poems of George Huddesford, M.A., Late Fellow of New College, Oxford by George Huddesford (1801)
"IVANK, character, distinction, fame, And noble birth forgot, Hear Stanhope, modest Earl, proclaim Himself a Sans-culotte ! Of pomp and splendid circumstance ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... good dishes might be constructed ; but we question whether, in an emergency, he would hesitate to employ the veritable culotte, for asimilar purpose. ..."

4. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing (1855)
"... (Verte tongue, Suisse, culotte dt Suisse,) or Striped Long Green, resembles the foregoing in all respects, except that the first is prettily striped ..."

5. A History of the French Revolution by Henry Morse Stephens (1891)
"... IN The Reign of Terror—The revolutionary or sans-culotte army—The revolutionary committees—" Cartes de ..."

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