sans-culotteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French sans-culotte (“(one) without pants”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /sanzkjuːˈlɒt/, /sɒ̃(ŋ)kjuːˈlɒt/

名詞

sans-culotte (複数形 sans-culottes)

1. A plebeian Parisian, especially a lower-class republican during the French Revolution. [from 18th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 454:

     One necessary fashion item for the dutiful sans-culotte, for example, was the red cap (bonnet rouge), which was alleged to recall the cap worn in Antiquity by emancipated slaves.

   • 2007, Barbara Taylor, ‘Guinea Pigs’, London Review of Books 29:3, page 10:

     More's sensational attacks on Paine's Rights of Man [...] were echoed in prints, mass-produced by Reeves's Association, which contrasted the happy condition of the English cottager to the brutalised domestic life of the Parisian sans-culotte.

派生語

アナグラム

• least counts

名詞

sansculotte (複数形 sansculottes)

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

参照

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition