Sacher-Masoch

American  

[zah-khuhr-mah-zohkh] / ˈzɑ xərˈmɑ zoʊx /

noun

1. Leopold von 1836–95, Austrian novelist.

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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

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

Yes, Ms. Faithfull really is related to the Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose work inspired the term “masochism.”

From New York Times

In the nineteenth century, the Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who is best remembered as the author of S & M erotica, wrote a story about two Jewish everymen, Pintschew and Mintschew, who love to argue with each other more than anything else in life.

From The New Yorker