How To Use Culotte In A Sentence
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The style gurus put their money on culottes, Miss Marple tweed and anything plum.
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This may be least true of the long "culottes", trousers most closely resembling a skirt, and at best mistakable for a skirt, but insofar as "culottes" establish the principle of dividing woman's outward apparel from the waist down, they merely disguise the grave disorder.
The Modesty of His Lordship
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And here we are in these floor-length indigo-dyed cotton culottes that have 25 pleats in them, and this sort of heavyweight double-stitched cotton top.
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The sans-culottes had played a role in revolutionary events since 1789, but they had, as a class, received few gains.
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Her red high-heeled boots were well hidden by navy culottes.
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Leather culottes, cropped denim flares, ripped jeans, a stylish 1970s suede midiskirt and silk duster coats all feature.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety.
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While Rousseau is frequently cited with approval by numerous leaders of the sans-culottes, or by Robespierre or Gracchus Babeuf, Rousseau was more a prophet of radical individualism than he was of cooperation.
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Here she mainly rolls her eyes in sorrow and gazes longingly at Fairbanks, a pretty sight himself in a ripped, muscle-exposing blouse and thigh-hugging culottes.
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Until they started to dance, they looked prim and librarian-like in their dark-colored culottes topped by demure, sheer, white blouses.
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The girl wore khaki culottes and a loose, sleeveless blouse of green gingham.
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From sexy swimwear and cute tops to beautifully tailored pants (and culottes and jeans) and killer coats, everyone put forth their best efforts and scored a hit.
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Proposals were initially made to revise the Constitution of 1793 but, in the wake of abortive uprisings by the Parisian sans-culottes in the spring of 1795, a fresh document was devised instead.
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No longer will I be a vision in cheesecloth and impetuously purchased clamdigger culottes.
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Team denim culottes with your fave heels and a slick of red lippy.
The Sun
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They did sketches of him in culottes and baggy shorts.
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They stole one hundred and forty five louis d'or and paid me with an acquittance for a tax for the sans-culottes, which is another robbery done to the citizens of this commune where I have neither home nor possessions.
The French Revolution - Volume 3
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The sans-culottes demanded that the revolutionary government immediately increase wages, fix prices, end food shortages, punish hoarders and most important, deal with the existence of counter-revolutionaries.
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These were the sans-culottes, men who defined themselves not only by their trade but also by the clothes they wore.
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Neither was it a Rousseauist abstraction, but a body of angry sans-culottes protesting against the recession and tax increases.
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Team denim culottes with your fave heels and a slick of red lippy.
The Sun
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He was barefoot, and if the term sans-culottes wasn't yet in common use, it wasn't for lack of trying on his part.
Dragonfly in Amber
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Wear with culottes or your fave jeans for a casual look.
The Sun
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Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety.
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As patriotic sansculottes were urged to join up, anxiety spread about a possible prison breakout in their absence.
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Are not these charitable people - these sans-culottes - very generous to you?
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In all I would have to say the filet and the culotte were my favorites.
Archive 2006-03-01
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We also noted two bias-cut rose pink dresses with shoestring straps, culottes, cross-over tops in cotton and T-shirts with shell emblems.
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One: denim culottes with one of our moss-green shabby-chic tweed blazers, a huge brooch and green-gold tango shoes.
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God knows I must have looked a freak with my 30-inch wide culottes covering shoes with two inch high platforms, but that was nothing to the exposure today.
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Soldiers wore a knee breeches called a culotte, it extended from the waist to just below the knee.
Archive 2008-01-06
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But they can keep the dressy culottes and pantsuits as long as they are part of a coordinated outfit.
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[13] In the original _les reduire à la sansculotterie_.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
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Related English includes recoil, as well as a sassy word imported from French, culotte.
The English Is Coming!
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For pants, skirts, shorts or culottes choose the size by the waist measurement unless your hips are much larger than that standard measurement.
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Summer '15 was all about the kimono jacket teamed with camis, wide-legged culottes and flatforms.
The Sun
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Most of the entries record various types of garments made, including camisoles and culottes (shirts and pants), suits, coats, and gloves.
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Deputies writing to their constituents describing the threat posed by Jacobins and sans-culottes may have been genuine in their fears.
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Now I do look in the dictionary, and I find, for the word culottes -- breeches. '
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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A swarthy daughter a asparagus grower, in culottes , shirt, and bandanna, pedaled past on her bicycle.
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Knee breeches or culottes were the de rigueur apparel for 18th century gentlemen.
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Bottega Veneta Bottega Veneta designer Tomas Maier 's white piqué jacket and culotte were inspired by the '20s tennis player Suzanne Lenglen .
Stylish Short Suits for Summer
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The term sans-culottes, meaning "without breeches," implied that the members of this political group were (1 point) women, because they wore skirts. very poor and could not afford pants. pacifists who did not use guns. ordinary patriots without fine clothes.
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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The ‘soldier-woman’ with square shoulders and culottes under an overcoat gave way to the ‘flower-woman’ with rounded shoulders, a heightened bust, narrow waist, and immense fan-like skirt 14 metres in circumference.
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The spirit of Agrarianism reduced the nobility and gentry of France to a social level with the miserable "sans-culottes" of Paris, and the vile "canaille" which seems to raise itself from the midst of civil disturbances with the same ease and as naturally, as all the living engines of corruption burst into activity on the decay of the human body.
N. Carolina University Magazine
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The term sans-culottes, meaning "without breeches," implied that the members of this political group were (1 point) women, because they wore skirts. very poor and could not afford pants. pacifists who did not use guns. ordinary patriots without fine clothes.
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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“dudheen,” a well culotté clay, used and worn till the bowl touches the nose.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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The coat is short in the face, ears, front forelegs and on the hocks; medium on the body; and longer at the ruff, cape (full neck into the shoulders), jabot (chest and between front legs) and at the culottes (rear of thighs).
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Fortunately, the Victorian era fashion industry co-opted the word "culotte" and introduced the "split-skirt" for women who rode bicycles or horses.
Clipmarks | Live Clips
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This influx of citizen-soldiers, many of them active sans-culottes, intensified radicalism within the army, and many officers were expelled or guillotined.
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Yesterday while walking to work I had a revelation that they're awfully similar to culottes.
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Not only that, numerous French Jacobins and sans-culottes were aware of this in the 1790s as were many of their democratic radical brethren across the English Channel.
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If Rousseau had been alive today, the arch-sentimentalist would have been spilling his guts to Oprah and excusing the excesses of present-day sans-culottes like a Guardian leader.
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Apparently thongs are old news, with hipster culottes taking over their crown, offering a roomier but still sexy look.
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They can wear a sweatshirt or blouse, with culottes or sweat pants.
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They are just like regular slips but are split with a seam up each leg, so they can be worn under pants, culottes, or skirts.
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Like the shrug, like culottes I don’t think they’re called culottes, though, in this year’s incarantion, like the ballon skirt that have all returned to the runway from my middle school melodrama to punish me for shunning fashionable them for “classic” OP parachute pants and Izod shirts, so also does food go to retro comfort food, fondue, and cupcakes.
Seoul is to Food What Moscow is to Fashion Week – Tofu-Ya
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The author also found small similarities between the ‘forces of order’ of 1791 and the sans-culottes movement of 1793, more evidence that crowds of the era were not all cut from the same cloth.
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The perfect Woodstock look is a pale blue button-through A-line jeans skirt or culottes with a tunic top, and a velvet blazer with vintage-inspired accessories.
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He got one glimpse of the _sans culottes_, appealed again to the De Chenier macer in his ancestry, and flung the flambeau at the first who entered.
Doom Castle
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The favourite article is a "dudheen," a well culotté clay, used and worn till the bowl touches the nose.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
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He showed his skill with pantsuits, culottes, pencil skirts and even a pony skin skirt teamed with a chiffon top.
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Fearing counter-revolution, the sans-culottes destroyed prisons because they believed they were secretly sheltering conspirators.
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Fearing counter-revolution, the sans-culottes destroyed prisons because they believed they were secretly sheltering conspirators.
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Bottega Veneta designer Tomas Maier's white piqué jacket and culotte were inspired by the '20s tennis player Suzanne Lenglen.
Short and Sweet
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By a pathetic fallacy their capacity to suffer is measured by their apparent power to enjoy, and those are moved to tears by the spectacle of a Dauphin surrendered to the coarse and brutal tutelage of a sans-culotte, who read without emotion of thousands of Huguenot children torn from their mothers 'arms and flung to the novercal cruelties of strangers in blood and creed.
The Story of Paris
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Don't let those fancy boys in culottes who just played in the Final Four tell you different.
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For the urban poor and even respectable tradesmen, hunger was never far away and during the French Revolution the Parisian sans-culottes had a national maximum for prices as one of their principal political goals.
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While the French Revolution politicized the sans-culottes, the Industrial Revolution industrialized them.
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Daily costumes included black velvet dresses for day, low-cut and bare-backed evening gowns, jackets and coats of rich and rare materials to be worn with velvet skirts by day or satin culottes by night, black lace mantillas, small sable hats, and an umbrella stick of platinum with her name set in diamonds on top.
The Shoe Queen: Rita Lydig | Edwardian Promenade
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Along with sans-culotte politics came revolutionary tactics.
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She uncurled her legs, determinedly smoothed down the neat white culottes, and stood up.
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The Swiss fired back and the sans culottes took casualties.
THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
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One man was wearing culottes, as you do.
Times, Sunday Times
