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