Voracia changed to a jacket top and heavy culottes. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie Lover]
What, doesn't everyone wear their culottes like that?. From Wordnik.com. [laissez les bon temps tombez] Reference
The sans-culottes took out the body, which had been embalmed. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850] Reference
Fringe was ubiquitous on everything from earrings to culottes. From Wordnik.com. [Nicole Berrie: Is Marc Jacobs Bored?] Reference
But pension fund trustees are hardly sans culottes in pinstripes. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 4] Reference
They were kind of an ugly version of culottes that we wear today. From Wordnik.com. [Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words] Reference
I eyed some culottes, but I WAS having a bit of an identity crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Gerstenzang: Tipper's Ongoing Gore] Reference
The same type of "sans culottes" who sparked the French Revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: France's Mass Strikes Are No Tea Party] Reference
"Sans culottes" and the "Bonnet Rouge" for those who like them; but, as. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
Lorrie's culottes ride up around her thighs, and the wind at her back is chill. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Mothers] Reference
As he caught her eye she flushed slightly, and quickly smoothed down her culottes. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
Sarah looked down at her own dark blue wool culottes and high tan kid-leather boots. From Wordnik.com. [Give Us Forever]
Hamp is wearing cherry red culottes and a ripped rose-hued B.D. Baggies poplar button-down. From Wordnik.com. [history abhors a vacuum] Reference
CONNERY: You know, she had like culottes on, like now when I think back, like loose culottes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 23, 2007] Reference
Garrison in a paper-light white suit and open-neck shirt, his woman in a halter and culottes. From Wordnik.com. [Psychosphere]
She stood back from him, smoothing down her culottes and buttoning her shirt with fingers that trembled. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
Sans-culottes simply means not trouserless, as some people think it does, but it means without stockings. From Wordnik.com. [Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution] Reference
Some teenage girls in culottes strutted by us, their legs illuminated by the movie screen's glimmering light. From Wordnik.com. ['Knockemstiff'] Reference
His lizardskin shirt and black culottes drew glances, but derisive ones: their cut was forty years out of date. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
To the long list of oxymoronic garments produced by our novelty-desperate fashion complex — corduroy culottes!. From Wordnik.com. [Globally Warmed: The Couture of Climate Change] Reference
Dress clothing tends to be loose shirts, fancy (silk or brocade, for example) culottes with sash, and high boots. From Wordnik.com. [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference
That while I was so a prisoner, the sans-culottes broke open the coffins to get at the lead to cast into bullets. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850] Reference
(This was annually erected by a self-appointed Roi Soleil, and torn down again by happy sans-culottes every July 14.). From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Danton wears culottes and buckled shoes like a gentleman -- like the barrister he is -- and it somehow seems obscene. From Wordnik.com. [kuniklos Diary Entry] Reference
Courtiers dressed in traditional Thai draped culottes are milling about in front of a sparkling Styrofoam Thai palace. From Wordnik.com. [Making A Modern Day 'King And I'] Reference
The name sans-culottes refers to the fact that, unlike the aristocracy, these commoners wore trousers instead of breeches. From Wordnik.com. [Annotations] Reference
For my part, I will do myself the justice to say, that in the line of sans-culottes, I have never loved any one but women. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
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