How To Use sacque In A Sentence
- Her voluptuous face, raised as if at the approach of one she has been waiting for, is lit up under the shade of the flat Woffington hat by the reflected lights from her dress, a quilted rose-colored slip with lace over it, a black lace apron and mantilla, and a sacque of striped blue silk. Archive 2010-04-01
- Her black head kerchief was old and worn, and her clumsily-fitting, coarse cloth "sacque" stood out below her waist as if it were of sheet iron, while her spare skirts fell below it like a drooping flower-bell from its open calyx above. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories
- Why, all my things are spoilt; and what's worse, my sacque was as good as new. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
- Her voluptuous face, raised as if at the approach of one she has been waiting for, is lit up under the shade of the flat Woffington hat by the reflected lights from her dress, a quilted rose-colored slip with lace over it, a black lace apron and mantilla, and a sacque of striped blue silk. Archive 2010-04-01
- He was an older guy, a little thick around the middle, dressed in a gray sacque suit that was shiny in the elbows and knees. DIAMOND RUBY
- Thousands of women wearing long white dresses and plumes and men clad in dark sacque suits with blue or peach shirts, striped ties, and black bowler hats. DIAMOND RUBY
- I couldn't help revelling in the language and the use of such words as 'tarlatan' and 'sacque' and 'redowa'. Times, Sunday Times
- I think, ladies call a sacque; that is, a sort of robe, completely loose in the body, but gathered into broad plaits upon the neck and shoulders, which fall down to the ground, and terminate in a species of train. Waverley Novels — Volume 12
- To this day the odour of matting brings back to Honora the sense of closed shutters; of a stifling south wind stirring their slats at noonday; the vision of Aunt Mary, cool and placid in a cambric sacque, sewing by the window in the upper hall, and the sound of fruit venders crying in the street, or of ragmen in the alley -- "Rags, bottles, old iron! Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill