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Webster 1913 Edition
Sontag
Son′tag
,Noun.
[So called from from Mme. Henriette
Sontag
, a famous singer.] A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman’s dress.
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sontag
sontag
English
Noun
sontag (plural sontags)
- (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 […]
- 1864, Heman Humphrey Barbour, My Wife and My Mother (page 174)