Dressing Sack

As the girl, in her dressing-sack which she had taken out of her bag, combed out her hair, the sharp, black eyes of her fellow-passenger spied something. ❋ Helen Beecher Long (N/A)

The door opened, and a woman appeared, young, rather pale, with pretty blond hair, somewhat disheveled, and dressed in a black skirt, with a white dressing-sack thrown over her shoulders. ❋ Various (N/A)

Then the girl had to hurry out on the street in her petticoat and little light dressing-sack that she wore for work, for they gave her no time to change. ❋ Edith Wyatt (1915)

Her lace nightgown and pale-blue silk dressing-sack fell away from a round white arm that did not look as if it belonged to a very old lady. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)

She wore a little pink flannel dressing-sack with full sleeves, and her hair, carelessly twisted into great piles, was in a beautiful disarray, curling about her cheeks and ears. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Turning any corner, a dressing-sack or a _cul-de-sac_ may bring you up short. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

Mother McGinnis stood there with white eyes -- they were white, I say -- and a yellow face, holding together at her throat with one hand a dingy pink flannel dressing-sack. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

She was in the summer afternoon condition which the ladies call "dressing-sack," and after an inspection at the glass, which seemed unsatisfactory, she walked across the hall to her daughter's room. ❋ John Hay (1870)

They took off the dressing-sack; the toilet was complete. ❋ Adam Mickiewicz (1826)

a dressing-sack and putting it on as she went, -- she appeared before him, blushing and shamefaced. ❋ Martha Finley (1868)

"The women wore linses [flax] petticoats and 'bedgowns' [like a dressing-sack], and often went without shoes in the summer. ❋ Archibald Henderson (1920)

"Hand me my dressing-sack," said Mrs. March, "and poke those things on the sofa under the berth. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Meanwhile the chambermaid had laced her up, and then thrown a dressing-sack over the young lady’s shoulders: after crimping her hair with a hot iron they proceeded to take off the curl-papers; her locks, since they were rather short, they made into two braids, leaving the hair smooth on the brow and temples. ❋ Adam Mickiewicz (1826)