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Definition of Mantillas
1. mantilla [n] - See also: mantilla
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mantillas
Literary usage of Mantillas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work. By Virginia Penny by Virginia Penny (1863)
"Cloaks and mantillas. Mayhew says: " In London, the workwomen for good shops,
... Mrs. M., who makes mantillas for S., Broadway, says she takes learners, ..."
2. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"... BOGOTA : LADIES WEARING mantillas. easy communications with the surrounding
lands. To remedy this defect three railway schemes have been taken in hand, ..."
3. Valencia and Murcia: A Glance at African Spain by Albert Frederick Calvert (1911)
"Not a man is seen toiling in the fields, not a beast at work on the road. Down the
paths pass old women with their mantillas drawn over their ..."
4. Letters of Captain Geo. Hamilton Perkins, U.S.N. by George Hamilton Perkins, George Eugene Belknap (1908)
"... where the band plays evenings, and where the ladies appear dressed in the
latest fashions, except that they wear mantillas instead of bonnets. ..."
5. Mrs. Stephens' New Monthly by Ann Sophia Stephens (1856)
"With the lace shawls and mantillas which will be worn this season, long black
mils will be all the rage. Some reach nearly to the elbow, while others are ..."
6. Letters, Descriptive of Public Monuments, Scenery, and Manners in France and by Caroline Elizabeth Wilde Cushing (1832)
"LETTER II. Province of Alava.—Mondragon.—Robbers in Spain.—A Spanish
Venta.—Vitoria.—mantillas.—Priests.—La Puebla.— Brasero.—Old Castile.—Miranda de Ebro. ..."
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