sacque

plural sacques

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of sack (“a short, loose-fitting garment for women and children”).

   “Ay, ay; she wore a flowered silk tabby sacque, on band days,” said Toole, who had an eye and a corner in his memory for female costume, “a fine showy—I remember.”

   1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Showing how Poor Mrs. Macnamara Was Troubled and Haunted Too, and Opening a Budget of Gossip”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 281

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   On the wall should be hooks and pegs at convenient distances, from which may be suspended sacques, dressing-gowns, dresses about to be worn, or any other article of general or immediate use.

   1876, Eliza Bisbee Duffey, Our Behaviour: A Manual of Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, Philadelphia