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Definition of Sontag
1. Noun. United States writer (born in 1933).
Definition of Sontag
1. n. A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.
Definition of Sontag
1. Noun. (dated) A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sontag
1. a woman's knitted cape [n -S]
Medical Definition of Sontag
1. A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress. Origin: So called from from Mme. Henriette Sontag, a famous singer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sontag
Literary usage of Sontag
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"Henriette sontag singing both in Italian and German opera, and deriving, ...
sontag. Beethoven could not hear her, but 'How did little sontag sing ? ..."
2. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"And yet it was fair and merry, that old bygone sontag time, fair and merry as
the sunny spring ... It was, in fact, spring when the so-called sontag fever, ..."
3. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"And yet it was fair and merry, that old bygone sontag time, fair and merry as
the sunny spring ... It was, in fact, spring when the so-called sontag fever, ..."
4. Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1885)
"ONCE more, ye muses, saddle me the hippogriff to ride back into the old sontag
time,"lI feel inclined to say, slightly parodying old Wieland's famous lines. ..."
5. Musical Letters from Abroad: Including Detailed Accounts of the Birmingham by Lowell Mason (1854)
"Wagner— Llnd— sontag. LEIPZIG, February 28,1852. How shall we speak of this
vocalist, or to whom shall we compare her ? The power of language has been ..."
6. The Musical World (1853)
"The critic, we repeat, can only adjudge the veritable sontag of 1852, ...
Before we heard sontag, and while yet our fancy had the freest play in an ideal ..."
7. Memories of a Musical Life by William Mason (1901)
"... was notable, for it afforded the opportunity of hearing in quick succession
three singers of world-wide reputation : Henriette sontag, Johanna Wagner, ..."
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