Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See sack, 4 and 5.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as 2d sack, 3.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A short loose-fitting garment for women and children.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a woman's full loose hiplength jacket

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Examples

  • I think, ladies call a sacque; that is, a sort of robe, completely loose in the body, but gathered into broad plaits upon the neck and shoulders, which fall down to the ground, and terminate in a species of train.

    Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801

  • Why, all my things are spoilt; and what's worse, my sacque was as good as new.

    Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778

  • Her black head kerchief was old and worn, and her clumsily-fitting, coarse cloth "sacque" stood out below her waist as if it were of sheet iron, while her spare skirts fell below it like a drooping flower-bell from its open calyx above.

    Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories 1865

  • Her voluptuous face, raised as if at the approach of one she has been waiting for, is lit up under the shade of the flat Woffington hat by the reflected lights from her dress, a quilted rose-colored slip with lace over it, a black lace apron and mantilla, and a sacque of striped blue silk.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • Her voluptuous face, raised as if at the approach of one she has been waiting for, is lit up under the shade of the flat Woffington hat by the reflected lights from her dress, a quilted rose-colored slip with lace over it, a black lace apron and mantilla, and a sacque of striped blue silk.

    Guest Blogger Jo Manning on Nelly O'Brien Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • He was an older guy, a little thick around the middle, dressed in a gray sacque suit that was shiny in the elbows and knees.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Thousands of women wearing long white dresses and plumes and men clad in dark sacque suits with blue or peach shirts, striped ties, and black bowler hats.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Thousands of women wearing long white dresses and plumes and men clad in dark sacque suits with blue or peach shirts, striped ties, and black bowler hats.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Thousands of women wearing long white dresses and plumes and men clad in dark sacque suits with blue or peach shirts, striped ties, and black bowler hats.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • He was an older guy, a little thick around the middle, dressed in a gray sacque suit that was shiny in the elbows and knees.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

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