mantua
IPA: mˈæntʃuʌ
Root Word: Mantua
noun
- Province of Lombardy, Italy.
- City and capital of Mantua.
- A town in Pinar del Río, Cuba.
- A village in Ohio.
- An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France.
- (obsolete) A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.
- (obsolete) A woman's cloak or mantle.
- (obsolete) A woman's gown.
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Examples of "mantua" in Sentences
- Born to a poor family in Mantua.
- The lady on the right wears a mantua.
- Mantua never recovered from this disaster.
- A rabbi at Mantua in the sixteenth century.
- Mantua is home to the Gonzaga family's mansion.
- He painted the cupola of the cathedral of Mantua.
- Mantua is a neighborhood located in est Philadelphia.
- Also called a mantua maker historically or a modiste.
- It was published for the first time in Mantua in 1557.
- The action was part of the third relief of the Siege of Mantua.
- She recommended that Mrs. Webbe, her former mantua-maker opposite Pall
- Nah, it's a "mantua", notice the seam lines all the way down the front.
- Venetian "mantua," -- a sort of cloak which was just then returning into fashion.
- The first was a large woman, dressed in an old-fashioned mantua robe of grey satin, a fur tippet, and with a lace cap tied under her chin.
- Her gown, a plain English mantua-silk, manufactured in Spitalfields; her petticoat the same; her binding, a piece of chequered-stuff, made at
- George was ordering new jewels and crown and fussing over his Coronation dress, Carolyn had her mantua-maker attend both herself and Lady Hood and Lady Anne
- Mrs. Mittin knew a mantua-maker who, to oblige her, would undertake this for a very small payment; and she promised to procure everything else that was necessary for the merest trifle.
- It is judicious, however, at times, to endeavor to awaken conscience both in mantua-makers and in monarchs, by the inculcation of a morality calculated to make an impression upon both; but, in order to make this impression, it is necessary to preach better than modern preachers usually do, who seldom talk effectively to either.