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mantua::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | gown |
Examples of mantua
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Mantua is the city where Romeo was exiled and was told that his Juliet was dead.
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Mantua was besieged by Napoleon's French army in 1796, before falling in 1797.
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It may have been one of a pair made to match the silk of a lady's mantua, or formal gown.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Mantua was one of four famous fortresses known as the Quadrilateral.
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Mantua Land owns four parcels of developed and undeveloped land totaling 315 acres in Mantua, Ohio.
From the bloomberg.com
Mantua is breathtaking, and a number of private palazzi and gardens are opened up for the festival.
From the economist.com
In the 18th century, formal dress started as the mantua, but later developed into the elaborate sack-back gown.
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Mantua never recovered from this disaster.
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Mantua was the strongest Austrian base in Italy.
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- Loose gown of the 17th and 18th centuries
- Mantua (Italian: Mantova u00A0( listen); Emilian and Latin: Mantua) is a city and commune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name.
- A Mantua (from the French Manteuil) is an article of women's clothing worn in the late seventeenth century and eighteenth century. Originally a loose gown, the later mantua was an overgown or robe typically worn over stays, stomacher and a co-ordinating petticoat.
- Mantua is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae. It contains only one species, Mantua fulvosericea, which is endemic to Kauai, Oahu, Molokai and Lanai.
- Mantua is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located north of Spring Garden Street, east of 40th Street, south of Mantua Avenue, and west of 31st Street. ...
- Lombardy, Italy, has outside the city walls a beautiful church, S. Maria della Grazie, dedicated by the noble house of Gonzaga to the Mother of God. It enshrines a picture of the Madonna painted on wood and attributed to St. Luke. ...
- A dress worn throughout the 18th century. It was supported with panniers and was wide on the hips but flat on the front and back. Also called manteau.
