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sack suit

noun

  1. a man's suit that has a loose-fitting jacket.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sack suit1

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
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Example Sentences

Instead of choosing the most modest and humble of suits—a sack suit, perhaps—they opt for something more regal.

Men are tapped on the shoulder by a civil gentleman in a sack suit, and walk away with him, never to be seen again.

Pratt came in quite briskly, a heavy-faced, white-bearded man, wearing a sack-suit and an old-fashioned turn-down collar.

He decided at the last moment to wear his usual town-going suit, a sack suit of black, made by a Bonneville tailor.

He dresses quietly in a plain sack suit of dark material, and wears a Derby hat.

One of these mommer's pets in a nobby sack suit—all dolled up in a clean collar an' a bow-tie an' grey kid gloves.

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