Mantua

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  • noun. A woman's garment of the 1600s and 1700s consisting of a bodice and full skirt cut from a single length of fabric, with the skirt designed to part in front to reveal a contrasting underskirt.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 1. A manteau; specifically, a woman's gown, especially one open in front, showing the petticoat and the lining of the mantua itself.
  • noun. A loose cloak worn by women about 1850.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.
  • noun. A woman's cloak or mantle; also, a woman's gown.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France.
  • noun. A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.
  • noun. A woman's cloak or mantle.
  • noun. A woman's gown.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. loose gown of the 17th and 18th centuries
  • Word Usage
    "Her gown, a plain English mantua-silk, manufactured in Spitalfields; her petticoat the same; her binding, a piece of chequered-stuff, made at"
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