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mantuamaking

mantuamaking noun: the manufacture of mantuas.

Noun

mantuamaking (uncountable)

  1. The manufacture of mantuas.
    • The first specialized "mantuamaking business in all its branches" in Upper Canada was opened in York in 1808 by Maria de Dieman.1995, Elizabeth Jane Errington, Wives and Mothers, Schoolmistresses and Scullery Maids, page 199
    • When Bell Sinclair arrived back in Caithness very ill after a period of mantuamaking in Edinburgh, with no means of her own, she wrote to her uncle informing him that her cousins the Barrocks had refused to help her.1996, Elizabeth C. Sanderson, Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh, page 86

Origin of mantuamaking

From mantua + making.

Questions about mantuamaking

What does mantuamaking mean?
Mantuamaking means the manufacture of mantuas.
What part of speech is mantuamaking?
Mantuamaking is a noun.

Words near mantuamaking in the dictionary

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

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