“Ay, ay; she wore a flowered silk tabby sacque, on band days,” said Toole, who had an eye and a corner in his memory for female costume, “a fine showy—I remember.”
1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Showing how Poor Mrs. Macnamara was Troubled and Haunted too, and Opening a Budget of Gossip”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], page 281