Sontag

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress. dated

    "If it had, only think what a scattering of clothing there would have been—skirts, dresses, sontags, double-dresses, shawls, cloaks, hoods, scarfs, veils, and little black strings[…]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

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susan sontag

Example

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"If it had, only think what a scattering of clothing there would have been—skirts, dresses, sontags, double-dresses, shawls, cloaks, hoods, scarfs, veils, and little black strings[…]"

Etymology

After Henriette Sontag (1806–1854), German soprano singer.

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