sack suit
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sack suit
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
Example Sentences
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The staid, old, boxy sack suit that had long been Brooks Brothers’ specialty fell out of favor.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2020
And who loved a sack suit more than the elegant political radicals of the early 1960s?
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2012
Last week when cornered by the New York Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall he was careful to doff his uniform for a grey sack suit and a most pacific necktie.
From Time Magazine Archive
He worked in a sack suit and smock, talked little about the theory of art.
From Time Magazine Archive
Otherwise he was dressed, like a countless multitude of other men who walk the streets of every city in North America, in a conventional sack suit, and shoes that still bore traces of blacking.
From Burned Bridges by Bertrand W. Sinclair
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