mantua

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The fabric of Taryn’s is gorgeous, the cut of her mantua and stomacher perfect.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

“Madam,” I pressed, “I have it on the best authority that among the finest mantua makers of London, the pannier is no longer the mode.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

But women's clothes were made to order in the town by mantua makers, and in the country by travelling tailoresses and sempstresses, or by the deft-fingered wearers.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse

Jane was a very "handy" girl, and prided herself on knowing enough about "mantua making" to get her living if she had need.

From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Philip Thicknesse put it about Bath that I was a poor girl, a mantua maker, when Mr. Thrale married me.

From Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Piozzi, Hester Lynch