sontag

plural sontags

1. datedA knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.

   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

plural Sontags

1. A surname from German.

   Susan Sontag later wrote that the horrifically indelible image of nine-year-old Kim Phúc in distress “probably did more to increase the public revulsion against the war than a hundred hours of televised barbarities”.

   2025 November 28, Adrian Horton, “‘We have to be able to ask difficult questions’: who really took the iconic Napalm Girl photo?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2026