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Where does “culottes” come from?

Culottes comes from French culottes, meaning breeches or close-fitting trousers, ultimately deriving from a garment worn in European fashion.

culottes (English): A type of loose shorts which look like a skirt; a...

Definitions

  1. A type of loose shorts which look like a skirt; a...

Ancestry of “culottes”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchculottesplural of culotte
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