mantillas

Noun

mantilla (plural mantillas)

1. A lace veil of Spanish origin worn over a woman's hair and shoulders.
   • [M]y eyes were oft times [on the] charmante maitresse de la maison, who glided among her guests in her flowing Spanish mantilla, and train of the clearest blonde, doing her devoirs with winning kindness, and showing how much benevolence of manner adds to beauty.1836 July, “London Fashionable Chit-Chat”, in The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts, Music, Drama, Fashions, &c. (Improved Series. Enlarged.), volume IX, London: Dobbs &...
2. A woman's light cloak or cape made of silk, velvet, lace, or other material.
   • The Duchess of Alba wrapped herself in a mantilla coat, asked her guest to take a chair in the middle of the patio and placed herself three steps behind him in the shade of a magnolia.1980 October, New Writing and Writers, volume 18, London: John Calder (Publishers) Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50

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