Culottic. World English Historical Dictionary

Culottic. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Culottic

a. nonce-wd. [f. F. culotte breeches + -IC after SANSCULOTTIC.] Wearing breeches, respectable, as opposed to sansculottic. So Culottism.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. VI. iii. Young Patriotism, Culottic and Sansculottic, rushes forward emulous. Ibid., III. V. ii. Let the guilty tremble therefore, and the suspect, and the rich, and in a word all manner of Culottic men. Ibid., III. VII. i. Sansculottism … having now got deep enough, is to perish in a new singular system of Culottism and arrangement. Ibid., III. VII. vi. Garnitures, formulas, culottisms of what sort soever.

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