culminant, adj., culminating; prominent. Point —; culminating point, top, summit.
culmination, n.f., culmination.
culminer, v.n., (astron.) to culminate.
culot, n.m., youngest bird (of a brood); youngest (of a family), last born; youngest member of a society; bottom (of lamps, crucibles, etc.); residuum. Le — d’une pipe; black at the bottom of a pipe-plug.
culotte, n.f., small clothes, breeches; rump (of an ox, a pigeon). — de bœuf; rump of beef. — de peau; leather breeches; (fig.) old retired officer.
culotter, v.a., to breech, to put in breeches; to color (pipe).
se culotter, v.r., to put on one’s breeches; to get colored (pipe).
culottier, n.m., breeches-maker.
☉culottin, n.m., newly-breeched boy; tight breeches.
culpabilité, n.f., guilt; culpability.