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Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French sans-culotte, literally, without breeches Date: 1790 1. an extreme radical republican in France at the time of the French Revolution 2. a radical or violent extremist in politics • sansculottic adjective • sansculottish adjective • sansculottism noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 hist. a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution. 2 an extreme republican or revolutionary. Derivatives: sansculottism n. Etymology: F, lit. = without knee-breeches