Definitions

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

Etymologies

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

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Examples

  • Even annie leibovitz, the ultimate “celebrity photographer,” documented the tragedy of Sarajevo, where she traveled with noted photography critic susan sontag.

    Photographers in the United States. 2009

  • Others may have taken place that were not brought to my attention. sontag:

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • Following regulations, my staff regularly reported hostile Haluk activity to Zone Patrol and to the Secretariat for Xenoaffairs. sontag:

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • Captain Schmidt assumed he was a Good Samaritan smuggler, if you can imagine such a thing ... sontag:

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • In my opinion ... so as not to inflame the citizenry against the Haluk trade treaty and the Haluk Consortium of Concerns. sontag:

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • The giant holoscreen activated, and the real show began. sontag:

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • Haluk corsairs have been positively identified in about half of the incidents, sometimes in company with Y'tata, sometimes not. sontag:

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • His shoulders sloped, his gray-blue kimono lay in narrow folds across his chest like what the old-fashioned people at home used to call a sontag.

    Humour of the North 1909

  • "Good!" said Patty, draping the curtain round her shoulders, sontag fashion.

    Patty's Butterfly Days Carolyn Wells 1902

  • She wiped her hands on the roller towel, and unpinned the little plaid shawl drawn tightly across her shoulders, Its removal disclosed a green sontag, and under that manifold layers of jacket and waist.

    Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902

  • And several friends have told me that “Little Women” made them desire a sontag: a crisscrossed scarf that wraps around the breasts and fastens at the waist, and that hasn’t been heard of much in the last hundred and fifty years.

    How Jacqueline Durran, the “Little Women” Costume Designer, Remixes Styles and Eras Condé Nast 2020

  • Durran found several patterns for woollen sontags, also known as “bosom friends,” in publications like Godey’s Lady’s Book, a popular fashion guide out of Philadelphia that Alcott and her sisters might have read for inspiration.

    How Jacqueline Durran, the “Little Women” Costume Designer, Remixes Styles and Eras Condé Nast 2020

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