casaque

[ ka-zak ]

noun

, French.

, plural ca·saques [k, a, -, zak].

1. a loose-fitting blouse for women.

Example Sentences

So many little things I didn't know yet — what a "salon" for fancy 1890s English people would even look like; the meaning of "parterre" and "casaque"; why it might be perceived as humiliating for a former butler to run a shop or wait tables in a restaurant — would have been stumbling blocks that made the reading far more difficult.

From Salon

She was dressed in bronze satin, with a flowered brocade "casaque," and one string of splendid pearls.

From Project Gutenberg

In Belgium, Digna Robert, 1565, met 'un beau jeune homme vètu d'une casaque noire, qui était le diable, et se nommait Barrebon....

From Project Gutenberg

Bright carpets, and curtains, furniture, pictures, and ornaments covered the length of two parlors separated only by folding-doors, and mirrors, that reached from the floor to the ceiling, reflected her figure full length, as she stood in the midst of the magnificence, in her Yorkbury hat and homemade casaque.

From Project Gutenberg

“How large your casaque is about the neck,” said Joy, carelessly.

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