mantilla
Americannoun
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a silk or lace head scarf arranged over a high comb and falling over the back and shoulders, worn in Spain, Mexico, etc.
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a short mantle or light cape.
noun
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a woman's lace or silk scarf covering the shoulders and head, often worn over a comb in the hair, esp in Spain
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a similar covering for the shoulders only
Etymology
Origin of mantilla
1710–20; < Spanish; diminutive of manta
Example Sentences
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In one, his head is thrown back in a gesture that could be interpreted as laughter or ecstasy; in another, he wears a mantilla and prays.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024
In photographs from this period, she is tangled in a nest of limbs, or in fishnets and a bright mantilla, kneeling at an invisible altar like a psychedelic bride.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022
Her refined black-lace mantilla, Katzew says, is virtually unique in the casta painting genre.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2017
This has been compared to a mashrabiya, and a mantilla, and an abstraction of a Cézanne painting, but its architect, Ricciotti, says it is "the rocky bottom of the ocean, lifted up".
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2013
I tried to look as holy as possible, but the white mantilla tickled my neck and the sides of my face.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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