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mantuamaker

mantuamaker noun: a maker of women's clothes, especially dresses.

Noun

mantuamaker (plural mantuamakers)

  1. A maker of women's clothes, especially dresses
    • Pity that hyper-fashionable mantuamakers and milliners were not a little quicker at taking hints from some of our Doctors of Divinity.1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

Forms of mantuamaker

pluralmantuamakers

Origin of mantuamaker

From mantua + maker, from mantua, a loose gown worn in the 18th century.

Questions about mantuamaker

What does mantuamaker mean?
Mantuamaker means a maker of women's clothes, especially dresses.
What part of speech is mantuamaker?
Mantuamaker is a noun.
What is the plural of mantuamaker?
The plural of mantuamaker is mantuamakers.

Words near mantuamaker in the dictionary

  1. mantris
  2. mantrum
  3. mantrums
  4. Mantsi
  5. mantua
  6. mantuamaker
  7. mantuamakers
  8. mantuamaking
  9. Mantuan
  10. Mantuanesque
  11. Mantuans

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