mantua

• “Her gown, a plain English mantua-silk, manufactured in Spitalfields; her petticoat the same; her binding, a piece of chequered-stuff, made at”

  The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)

• “Nah, it's a "mantua", notice the seam lines all the way down the front.”

  Diegogarcity, Fake Bolero Edition - A Dress A Day

• “Venetian "mantua," -- a sort of cloak which was just then returning into fashion.”

  The Brotherhood of Consolation

• “Mrs. Mittin knew a mantua-maker who, to oblige her, would undertake this for a very small payment; and she promised to procure everything else that was necessary for the merest trifle.”

  Camilla

• “She recommended that Mrs. Webbe, her former mantua-maker opposite Pall”

  Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text

• “George was ordering new jewels and crown and fussing over his Coronation dress, Carolyn had her mantua-maker attend both herself and Lady Hood and Lady Anne”

  Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text

• “The first was a large woman, dressed in an old-fashioned mantua robe of grey satin, a fur tippet, and with a lace cap tied under her chin.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Blackstone Key

• “It is judicious, however, at times, to endeavor to awaken conscience both in mantua-makers and in monarchs, by the inculcation of a morality calculated to make an impression upon both; but, in order to make this impression, it is necessary to preach better than modern preachers usually do, who seldom talk effectively to either.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “The female being more weak, became still more disgusting and frightful in her old age; and, in short, without tailors, and mantua-makers, one-half of mankind would never have dared to show itself to the other.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “Mrs Chick made this impressive observation in the drawing – room, after having descended thither from the inspection of the mantua – makers upstairs, who were busy on the family mourning.”

  Dombey and Son

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