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cu·lotte

 (ko͞o-lŏt′, kyo͞o-, ko͞o′lŏt′, kyo͞o′-)
n. often culottes
A pair of pants that usually falls between the knees and the ankles and is cut to resemble a skirt.
[French, breeches, diminutive of cul, rump, from Latin cūlus; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.]
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culotte

(kʊˈlɒt)
n
1. (Clothing & Fashion) a pair of culottes
2. (Animals) the soft hair on the back of a dog's foreleg
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.culotte - a divided skirtculotte - a divided skirt      
skirt - a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women
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Translations
سِروال نِسائي يَبدو كالتَّنورَه
kalhotová sukně
buksenederdel
nadrágszoknya
buxnapils
sijonkelnės
bikšusvārki
nohavicová sukňa
etek görünüşlü pantalon

culotte

(kjuːʒˈlot) noun
(usually in plural) women's knee-length trousers cut so as to look like a skirt.
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The French noblesse chose to have the people `sans culottes,' and they had `sans culotte' governors to their hearts' content.
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Also highly regarded are his fantasy involving two children, L' Ane culotte (1937; translated as Culotte the Donkey, 1980), and its sequels, Hyacintine (1940), Le Jardin d'Hyacinthe (1946), and the novel Malicroix (1948).
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"This season, designers have put their heads together on how to make the culotte more chic - in the past, it's not always been the most flattering of silhouettes to wear but this year they're doing them in really soft drapey fabrics so you can barely tell that they are culottes, it looks just like a skirt.
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