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
Adlai Stevenson, addressing a Democratic women's conference, spent a whimsical paragraph on a sure laugh-getter, the sack dress.
From Time Magazine Archive
There’s no way out of it, so you needn’t think to try words, nor blarney, nor nothing else with me, I have a sack dress each for you, and what you have on is mine.
From Polly A New-Fashioned Girl by Meade, L. T.
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