sacque
IPA: sˈæk
noun
- Alternative spelling of sack (“a short, loose-fitting garment for women and children”) [A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.]
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Examples of "sacque" in Sentences
- Why, all my things are spoilt; and what's worse, my sacque was as good as new.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.