sacque
Pronunciation Noun

sacque (plural sacques)

  1. Alternative spelling of sack
    • 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. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], OCLC 18952474 ↗, page 281 ↗:
      “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.”



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