sack coat
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of sack coat
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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The object of all this kudos was a small, quiet, black-eyed, 60-year-old man stiffly dressed in a black sack coat and old-fashioned starched collar.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the sleeves of his blue sack coat extended long cuffs, half hiding the small hands folded placidly across his middle.
From Time Magazine Archive
On sweltering Washington nights he appears at informal evening functions equipped with white trousers and a blue sack coat, instead of the usual dinner coat and close- fitting vest.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked thoroughly at home in his black sack coat and striped trousers, as he sat calmly in the lawyers' sector waiting for the proceedings to begin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Roberts: "Why, he came—to the Hibbens's dinner—in a sack coat."
From Five O'Clock Tea Farce by Howells, William Dean
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