sontag

sontag

See also: Sontag

English

Etymology

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

Noun

sontag (plural sontags)

1. (dated) A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.
   • 1864, Heman Humphrey Barbour, My Wife and My Mother (page 174)

     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 […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sontag in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• Gaston, Gatson, Tsonga, gaston, tags on, tangos, tongas