sacque

• IPA^(key): /sæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

sacque (plural sacques)

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

     “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.”

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

     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.

• casque

• Homophones: sacquent, sacques

sacque

1. inflection of sacquer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative