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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.

Definition 2024


sontag

sontag

English

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 []