mantua

Example Sentences

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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

A few of them had their Sunday dresses made by fashionable mantua makers in Washington.

From The Man in Gray by Dixon, Thomas

Among those organized in Philadelphia were hand-loom weavers, plasterers, bricklayers, black and white smiths, cigar makers, plumbers, and women workers including tailoresses, seamstresses, binders, folders, milliners, corset makers, and mantua workers.

From A History of Trade Unionism in the United States by Perlman, Selig

The days of her early "mantua making" were over.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)