sack dress
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sack dress
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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Always seemingly sweat-resistant, Keaton wore her signature black fedora with a gold-flecked Comme des Garcons sack dress and black turtleneck sweater.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2015
A belt or brooch can give a sack dress a waist, and a spotted white blouse can emerge from a dye bath utterly transformed as a lustrous red Bordeaux.
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2012
She also had smart-looking wool trousers and a little cap-sleeve sack dress that other designers might worry was too plain.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2011
The 170 dresses and suits, including Balenciaga's sack dress, his semifitted suit and that cocoon coat, were culled from private collections and museums as far away as Kyoto, Japan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Notice her sack dress over a satin dress, and the white, elaborately made skirt.
From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton
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