Where does the word "culottes" come from?

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Why: All my jeans are getting hemmed or patched. What will I wear to Disneyland tomorrow?

Answer: The word culottes is of French origin, and is the diminutive form of the word "cul," which means "backside," from the Latin "culus." The word has always referred to the knee-breeches commonly worn by gentlemen of the European upper-classes from the late Middle Ages through the early 19th century. Culottes were normally fastened to the knee by either buttons, a strap and buckle, or a drawstring. During the French Revolution (late 18th century), the working-class revolutionaries were known as the "sans-culottes" (literally, "without culottes"), and derived their name from their preference for pantaloons rather than the upper-class culottes.

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: Breeches has been known since c. 1205, from Old English brēc, the plural of brōc "garment for the legs and trunk," from the Proto-Germanic word *brōkiz, and Old Norse word brók, which shows up in the epithet of the Viking king Ragnar Loðbrók: Ragnar "Hairy-breeches." The Proto-Germanic word also led to the Latin word bracca; the Romans, who did not generally wear pants, referred to Germanic tribes as braccati, "wearers of breeches" (or rather, of fabric wrapped around the legs). In the South, we call them "britches."