mantilla

• It was decidedly disappointing to find they had almost invariably discarded the graceful and becoming lace head-dress and mantilla, and adopted the French costume. —  Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
• Many were the tender glances darted at him from beneath veil and mantilla, as he took his evening stroll upon the Prado; oftentimes, when he passed along the street, white and slender fingers, protruded through half-closed jalousies_, dropped upon his handsome head a shower of fragrant jasmin blossoms. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
• There is my bonnet, mantilla, and gloves,--here I am, body and soul,--what a glorious lounge,--good old Cr[oe]sus, what a palace you are in,--I never saw any thing so magnificent! —  Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
• In honour of the occasion every woman had draped herself in the graceful mantilla, either black or white, and even the poorest wore a scarlet or orange silk-fringed crępe shawl The usual precautions as to detectives and a guard of soldiers had been taken, but the buxom and amiable Infanta was popular among the lower orders, so that no revolutionist outbreak was feared Her charities were famous, her diamonds and Paris toilettes equally so. —  The Hippodrome
• Let it down While he was speaking Zaidie had taken off a Spanish mantilla which she had thrown over her head as she came out, and which the ladies of Venus seemed to think was part of her hair. —  A Honeymoon in Space

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