Crossword clues for sacque
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sack \Sack\, n. [OE. sak, sek, AS. sacc, s[ae]cc, L. saccus, Gr. sa`kkos from Heb. sak; cf. F. sac, from the Latin. Cf. Sac, Satchel, Sack to plunder.]
A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
--McElrath.[Perhaps a different word.] Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack. [Written also sacque.]
A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
(Biol.) See 2d Sac, 2.
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Bed. [Colloq.]
Sack bearer (Zo["o]l.). See Basket worm, under Basket.
Sack tree (Bot.), an East Indian tree ( Antiaris saccidora) which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the wood for a bottom.
To give the sack to or get the sack, to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted.
To hit the sack, to go to bed. [Slang]
Wiktionary
n. (''Variant of'' '''sack''') A short loose-fitting garment for women and children.
WordNet
n. a woman's full loose hiplength jacket [syn: sack]
Usage examples of "sacque".
Outside stood a tiny, wispy lady of late middle years, wearing a quilted sacque of plum-coloured satin which would have been the height of alamodality some thirty years ago.
Reaching for the dressing sacque that Estelle had laid out for her, she began to push her arms into the sleeves.
She discarded her dressing sacque before climbing to the surface of the high mattress and sliding under the sheet and coverlet.
With her hair trailing in wet, wheat gold strands down her back and her dressing sacque pulled around her, she paused to stare up at him.
She breathed deep of it, even as she wrapped her dressing sacque closer around her.
Deborah, also in a dressing sacque over her night-clothes and with her hair spilling down her back.
She wore her usual morning costume -- a breakfast sacque of black silk profusely trimmed with lace, and a black silk skirt.
She was trying vainly to think of someone to whom she might give a small sacque as a gift.
But the current, leaping over the pebbles, carried this sacque, which seemed possessed, as it went along, much more rapidly than he.
General Browne suddenly start, and assume an attitude of the utmost surprise, not unmixed with fear, as his eyes were suddenly caught and riveted by a portrait of an old lady in a sacque, the fashionable dress of the end of the seventeenth century.
General Browne suddenly start, and assume an attitude of the utmost, surprise, not unmixed with fear, as his eyes were caught and suddenly riveted by a portrait of an old lady in a sacque, the fashionable dress of the end of the seventeenth century.
She had but time to arrange her dressing sacque when her father walked in.
She had brought her bonnet and sacque down-stairs with her, and was transferring them from the hatrack to her person while she talked.
When fastened, it would have the look of a loose sacque gown over a braided corset, but in fact the stomacher was part of the bodice, kept snug around the body by laces beneath the loose back.
Instead of a domino, she wore a flowing sacque gown of pristine white silk.