SANSCULOTTE

PRONUNCIATION:  (sanz-kyoo-LOT)

MEANING:  noun: A radical or revolutionary.

ETYMOLOGY:  From French, literally, without knee breeches. In the French Revolution, this was the aristocrats’ term of contempt for the ill-clad volunteers of the Revolutionary army who rejected knee breeches as a symbol of the upper class and adopted pantaloons. As often happens with such epithets, the revolutionaries themselves adopted it as a term of pride. Earliest documented use: 1790.
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SAM'S CULOTTE - Murray's Pants Store, only owned by Sam

ANS: CULOTTE - reply to Qu: What are those things women wear that look like a skirt but are divided into pantlegs at the bottom?

SAN SCULPTTE - stone statuette of a saint