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Definition of Dressing sack
1. Noun. A woman's loose jacket; worn while dressing.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dressing Sack
Literary usage of Dressing sack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Do Business by Letter and Training Course in Conversational English by Sherwin Cody (1914)
"We may say "a lady's dressing sack," "a man's dress suit," but never "lady's
dressing sacks," "Our line of boy's blouses," etc., but always "ladies' ..."
2. How to Do Business by Letter, and Training Course in Business English by Sherwin Cody (1908)
"We may say "a lady's dressing sack," "a man's dress suit," but never "lady's
dressing sacks," "Our line of boy's blouses," etc., but always "ladies' ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"At that instant Bice appeared looking like a ghost, clad in a white dressing-sack.
Mother and daughter looked at each other, and the former stood speechless ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
""Hand nie my dressing-sack." said Mrs. March, "and poke those things on 'he sofa
under the berth. Shut up that wash-stand, and pull the curtain across that ..."
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