Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Sans Culottides

The five complementary days added to the twelve months of the Revolutionary Calendar. Each month being made to consist of thirty days, the riff-raff days which would not conform to the law were named in honour of the sans culottes, and made idle days or holidays.

sans-culottism. Red republicanism.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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