A type of knee-length breeches or short trousers, typically worn as part of historical or formal dress.
From French culotte, from cul (bottom/rear), a humorous reference to the garment's coverage. The singular form, though less common in English than the plural 'culottes,' entered English in the 17th-18th centuries.
The French literally named this garment after what it covered—cul means 'bottom'—which is exactly the kind of playful naming that shows how French fashion vocabulary often has cheeky humor hidden in it.
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