a woman's loose gown worn as a robe or overdress in the early 18th century.
a mantle.
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The fabric of Taryn’s is gorgeous, the cut of her mantua and stomacher perfect.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
“Madam,” I pressed, “I have it on the best authority that among the finest mantua makers of London, the pannier is no longer the mode.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
A few of them had their Sunday dresses made by fashionable mantua makers in Washington.
From The Man in Gray by Dixon, Thomas
He had dropped into her aunt's parlor about ten o'clock, and detected Rosa in the act of dragging her new ball-dress from the box in which the mantua maker had sent it home.
From At Last by Harland, Marion
But women's clothes were made to order in the town by mantua makers, and in the country by travelling tailoresses and sempstresses, or by the deft-fingered wearers.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse
Andrea Ronca, who grows cereals for his family's cattle farm in the province of Mantua in northern Italy, uses satellite images to track where his land is driest.
From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023
Four rail cars fell into the Mantua Creek, after the freight train passed over a moveable rail bridge that had not been properly secured.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2023
Mantua and Johnson are investigating whether there is a seasonal component to the winter-run Chinook’s taste for anchovies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
“This is where we are headed. The temperature could spike again,” said Nathan Mantua, a federal climate scientist who studies salmon.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
Mantua, celebrating a royal wedding, laid on an open-air stadium into which were crammed several thousand people a night.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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