sans : Idioms & Phrases

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sans serif

  • noun a typeface in which characters have no serifs
    Helvetica.
WordNet

sans-culotte

Sans`-cu`lotte" noun
Etymology
F., without breeches.
Definitions
  1. A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.
  2. Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.
Webster 1913

sans-culottic

Sans`-cu*lot"tic adjective
Definitions
  1. pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical. Carlyle.
Webster 1913

sans-culottism

Sans`-cu*lot"tism noun
Etymology
F. sans-culottisme.
Definitions
  1. Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.
Webster 1913

sans-souci

Sans`-sou`ci adverb
Etymology
F.
Definitions
  1. Without care; free and easy.
Webster 1913