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Definition of Culottes
1. culotte [n] - See also: culotte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Culottes
Literary usage of Culottes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Legends of the St. Lawrence: Told During a Cruise of the Yatch by James MacPherson Le Moine (1898)
"Sans-culottes ! " quickly replied Sawney, " what! highlanders, bare-legged
highlanders, fighting under you to overthrow the Queen's Government in Canada ! ..."
2. French Men and French Manners by Albert Dresden Vandam (1895)
""I am going to take you to La Femme-eu- culottes," he said, when I came up to him.
... A first glance at the front shop of La Femme- en-culottes and its ..."
3. The Story of the White House by Esther Singleton (1907)
"... Jefferson's Sympathy with the Sans culottes; Washington's Levees and Mrs.
Washington's Receptions; John Adams on Republicanism and Jefferson; ..."
4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1812)
"... mother, his aunt, to sing the Carmagnole, and to cry long live the Sana-culottes.1 He
appears to have hurried the young prince into an untimely grave. ..."
5. The History of the Reign of George III.: To which is Prefixed, A View of the by Robert Bisset (1820)
"... jacobins — the sans- culottes — decrees for raising a jacobin army and punishing
refractory priests. — the king refuses his sanction. ..."
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