Mantillas

Word MANTILLAS
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Definitions and meanings of "Mantillas"

What do we mean by mantillas?

A lace veil of Spanish origin worn over a woman's hair and shoulders.

A woman's light cloak or cape made of silk, velvet, lace, or other material.

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The word "mantillas" in example sentences

I was carried off my feet between two fat Señoras in mantillas and shaking diamond pendants, exactly as if I had been packed between two moveable feather-beds. ❋ Frances Erskine Inglis (1843)

I realized that the painter, with his elaborate mantillas and costumes and fans, was slowly becoming a personage in the city. ❋ Colm Tóibín (2011)

I see women with headcovers (mantillas) in church and women with short-shorts, with everything in-between. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The appearance is Iberian: mantillas and lace, wide-brimmed hats and long coats; an ornate wall of dark, seething Spanish baroque sculpture. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Daily costumes included black velvet dresses for day, low-cut and bare-backed evening gowns, jackets and coats of rich and rare materials to be worn with velvet skirts by day or satin culottes by night, black lace mantillas, small sable hats, and an umbrella stick of platinum with her name set in diamonds on top. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I loved the Spanish interiors in this movie and the wonderful costumes, and mantillas. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Gracefully sweeping, misty mantillas of lime-green leaflings wrap willows weeping in bud-spangled splendor on the library Walk as it passes over the old stone bridge, under which swim monogamous swans making their way to Taylor Pond on the meandering stream that bisects the lawn of the lower campus. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What next, snarking on women who wear mantillas while ignoring the atrocities that happen in the Middle East? ❋ Unknown (2009)

After all that, she even turned up with the Mulier Fortis for the 10am Mass on Wednesday making that two mantillas in the front row. ❋ Unknown (2009)

T-shirts with 'EF logos', anthems, team mantillas, the mind truely boggles! ❋ Unknown (2009)

In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of Zeila, my soul mingled with their folds. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The gilt reredos was still intact, communion was generally received kneeling on the tongue, and women wore mantillas. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)

He conceded that the palm trees were more handsome than he had imagined and that the ancient women in black mantillas were “just lovely.” ❋ Patricia O'Toole (2008)

These days St. Augustine is grimly quaint, Colonial Williamsburg with girls in mantillas instead of mop caps. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

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