sacque

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   historical: a woman's loose gown or jacket hanging from the shoulders, especially a fashionable eighteenth-century garment

   The portrait showed her in a flowered silk sacque over a hooped petticoat.

A historical spelling of sack in the clothing sense, probably influenced by French orthography. The name referred to a loose, unfitted garment and became especially associated with the eighteenth-century sack-back gown.

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