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mantua

Noun

Man=tu=a

WORDNET DICTIONARY

mantua(n = noun.artifact) Array - loose gown of the 17th and 18th centuries; Array

mantua, n.

A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy. Beck (Draper's Dict.). [1913 Webster]
A woman's cloak or mantle; also, a woman's gown. [1913 Webster]

mantua, n. hist. a woman's loose gown of the 17th-18th c.

Etymology

corrupt. of manteau (F, as MANTLE) after Mantua in Italy

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