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/ˈmæntəʊ/ · noun
A cloak or gown, especially of a kind popular with women in the 17th and 18th centuries..
Not to mention the need to keep her manteau from becoming a sort of anti-parachute which sought to lift her free of the pavement.
As a result of this politics of personal appearance, Iranians have come to refer to three types of woman, defining their politics by the clothes they wear: the chadory, the manteauy, and the maghna'eh-poosh. […] In contrast, the manteauy woman wears the loose-fitting manteau, often fashionably with a colorful, loosely tied head scarf. She generally supports both political and social reform.
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Manteau means A cloak or gown, especially of a kind popular with women in the 17th and 18th centuries..
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Not to mention the need to keep her manteau from becoming a sort of anti-parachute which sought to lift her free of the pavement.
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