Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A lightweight lace or silk scarf worn over the head and shoulders, often over a high comb, by women in Spain and Latin America.
- n. A short cloak or cape.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A short mantle.
- n. A light cloak or covering thrown over the dress of a lady.
- n. A woman's head-covering, often of lace, which falls down upon the shoulders and may be used as a veil, worn in Spain and the Spanish colonies, in Genoa, and elsewhere.
Wiktionary
- n. Spanish lace veil worn over a woman's hair and shoulders.
- n. A lady's light cloak or cape of silk, velvet, lace, or similar.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.
- n. A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders; -- worn in Spain, Mexico, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. short cape worn by women
- n. a woman's silk or lace scarf
Etymologies
- From Spanish diminutive of manta. (Wiktionary)
- Spanish, diminutive of manta, cape; see manta. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The mantilla was a handsome one, and she thanked Mrs. Ross effusively.”
“Head-covering veils would not be included in a ban as they form a part of traditional Spanish dress, with women often covering their heads with a garment called a mantilla, especially during church services in the south of the country.”
“Spanish dress, with women often covering their heads with a garment called a mantilla, especially during church services in the south of the country.”
“The proposal is careful not to include all head-covering veils, as traditional Spanish dress also includes lace head garments called a mantilla typically worn during church services in the south.”
“The flowing lace adornment, reaching from the head to the shoulders, and from thence thrown in graceful folds over the back and one arm, is called the "mantilla," and is the characteristic costume of the ladies of Spain.”
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
“At last, after a great many hesitations, Zouhra, who is the bravest of them all, ventured to go out with me, buried in the recesses of a brougham, and protected by a very thick kind of mantilla, which after all was hardly any less impenetrable than a _yashmak_.”
“Her fat, massive face was painted and powdered; on her head she wore a kind of mantilla also gold-coloured, and about her neck a string of old Egyptian amulets.”
“It's called a "mantilla" and it's somewhere between a Jewish kippot and a softball cap in size. brushcop (SFC Sallie, CPL Long, LTHarris, SSG Brown, PVT Simmons KIA OIF lll&V, they died for you, honor them)”
“mantilla," and "Andalousie" with "jealousy," while her agile fingers played on the old instrument an accompaniment supposed to imitate bells and castanets.”
“Scott, 25, wore a Vera Wang strapless gown and a mantilla veil with hand-cut Chantilly lace appliqué.”
Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott and Chris Tyrell Tie the Knot
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mantilla’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
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Pterodactyl's Game of Postal Abbrevia...
Here's a fun little word game that might appeal to my fellow Wordies. The object of this game is to create the longest possible word, using only the official two-letter abbreviations of U.S. states...
deny, lame, mope, demand, camp, cask, hind, decamp, canvas, scalar, mental, pronks and 75 more...
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hats and headgear
Everything hats,things with hoods,hoods,scarves,crowns,useful
adjectival forms,hat expressions,
alternate spellingsbabushka, balaclava, bamoral, baseball cap, beanie, bearskin, beaver hat, beret, billycock, biretta, boater, bobble hat and 422 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (M)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
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Pale Fire
Words gathered while reading Pale Fire.
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azd's Words
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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...another list...
I've no idea where I got this page full of words, but whatever it is, I want to find it again. May have duplicate words from other lists.
bicameral, aphelion, dirigible, parhelion, flocculus, vernier, corticate, oxalis, pandanus, calabash, plumbago, jonquil and 217 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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Celine
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Tulip Names I
No rhyme or reason other than that I like the names. :-) For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names II: You Know ...abbey dream, abbey road, abodement, abra, abra elite, academician tstisin, acapulco, ace of diamonds, acropolis, ad hoc, adamo, addis and 597 more...
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 317 more...
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braggadocio
an addendum or Anhang to Prolagus's list 'The braggadocio recipe'
amoeba, angina, antenna, aria, arnica, audio, aurora, biro, bronco, bubo, cafe, calico and 88 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mantilla.
sionnach Not to be confused with the mantissa. A critter that used to hang out in log tables, but is now bordering on the verge of extinction, having been rendered obsolescent by the hegemonistic march forward of the pocket calculator.
Possibly with a little help from chisanbop. Jan 22, 2008
brtom Father Conmee doffed his silk hat, as he took leave, at the jet beads of her mantilla inkshining in the sun.
Joyce, Ulysses, 10 Jan 6, 2007