Mantuas

Charlotte model and mantuas inspired by a visit to Edinburgh five years ago. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

"I'll wager that in the rapture and romance of your sweethearting you have not given a thought to petticoats and mantuas," she said, after she had embraced her sister, who was horrified at the sight of that painted harridan from London. ❋ Unknown (1875)

And now, dearest, if you are left with a pittance that will but serve to pay for your gloves and fans at the Middle Exchange, and perhaps to buy you an Indian night-gown in the course of the year -- for your Court petticoats and mantuas will cost three times as much -- you have but to remember that my purse is to be yours, and my home yours, and that ❋ Unknown (1875)

Of course, they were not in their flowered silks, their lutestrings, their mantuas. ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)

"You will line the hoods and mantuas warm, Betty," pursued Madam, in her most amiable tone. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

_Manto, _ the daughter of Teresias, who founded the city so called; and that some of the best materials for making these mantuas is still named from the town it is manufactured in -- a _Padua_ soy. ❋ Hester Lynch Piozzi (1781)

They had opened cabinets, peered into secret drawers, sniffed at the stale _pot-pourri_ in old crackle vases; they had dragged their willing victim through all the long slippery passages, by all the mysterious stairs and by-ways; they had obliged her to look at the interior of ghostly closets, where the ladies of old had stored their house linen or hung their mantuas and farthingales; they had made her look out of numerous windows to admire the prospect; they had introduced her to the state bedroom in which the heads of the Wendover race made a point of being born; they made her peep shuddering into the death-chamber where the family were laid in their last slumber. ❋ Unknown (1875)