Sacher-Masoch

[zah-khuhr-mah-zohkh]

noun

1. Leopold von 1836–95, Austrian novelist.

Example Sentences

Her mother was Baroness Eva Sacher-Masoch, a Hungarian, half-Jewish former ballet dancer who had fled the Nazis in World War II.

From BBC

After divorcing, Lady Sacher-Masoch spirited her six-year-old daughter to a terraced house in Reading, discouraging further contact with Major Faithfull.

From BBC

This comics biography looks at the life of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the 19th-century author who wrote frankly of his desire to be sexually submissive and whose name lives on in the word “masochism.”

From New York Times

Her mother, just as improbably, was the Austrian Baroness Eva von Sacher-Masoch — the great-niece of the man who wrote the sensationally scandalous novella “Venus in Furs” and from whose name we are blessed with the word masochism.

From New York Times

Emotion and tactility were two words thrown around by the two at the news conference and alluded to in a set built from rooms covered in wool shearling in the hues of Jordan almonds — part Sacher-Masoch, part Meret Oppenheim.

From New York Times