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mantuas

mantuas is the plural of mantua.

Meaning of mantua

Noun

mantua (plural mantuas)

  1. An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France.
  2. (obsolete) A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.
    • Anderson mentions black and coloured mantuas amongst other silks introduced here by the French immigrants of 1685. […] Mantuas are also included in a list of silks advertised for sale in the British Chronicle of 1763 […]1882, S. William Beck, The Draper's Dictionary
  3. (obsolete) A woman's cloak or mantle.
  4. (obsolete) A woman's gown.
    • Her dress was extremely elegant, but had an appearance of foreign fashion, as if both the lady and her mantua-maker were of 'a far countree’.1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 9, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818

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Questions about mantuas

What is mantuas the plural of?
Mantuas is the plural of mantua.

Words near mantuas in the dictionary

  1. Mantuan
  2. Mantuanesque
  3. Mantuans
  4. mantuaries
  5. mantuary
  6. mantuas
  7. mantum
  8. manty
  9. mantyhose
  10. Mantz
  11. Mantzes

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