Hist. Also 4 sukkenye, 7 surkney, 9 suckeney. [a. OF. soucanie, also sor-, surquanie (earlier soschanie, sousquenie, cf. med.L. soscania) of Slavonic origin (cf. Polish suknia coat), whence also MHG. sukkenîe.] A smock.
a. 1366[?]. Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 1232. She hadde on a sukkenye [16th c. edd. suckeny; orig. F. sorquanie] That not of hempe ne heerdis was.
1658. Phillips, Surkney, a kind of white garment like a rotchet.
[1834. Planché, Brit. Costume, 113. The sosquenie, surquayne, or suckeney was an exterior garment at this period [viz. temp. Edw. I].
1885. Dillon, Fairholt’s Costume Eng., II. 387. Sukkenye, a loose frock.]
