Mantilla

Quick meaning: Mantilla is a noun meaning A lace veil of Spanish origin worn over a woman's hair and shoulders.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

The Duchess of Alba wrapped herself in a mantilla coat, asked her guest to take a chair in the middle of the patio and placed herself three steps behind him in the shade of a magnolia.

[M]y eyes were oft times [on the] charmante maitresse de la maison, who glided among her guests in her flowing Spanish mantilla, and train of the clearest blonde, doing her devoirs with winning kindness, and showing how much benevolence of manner adds to beauty.

Mantillas are larger than last year, and are generally all worn with a deep flouncing, either of the same material, or of black lace; the mantilla itself is also much trimmed with small ruchings of ribbon, guip and guipure lace, laid on quite flat. […] Black lace shawls and mantillas will always be in the best taste—the Spanish origin of the Empress Eugénie, having given her a penchant for these articles, the national mantilla of her country, of which we have borrowed the name.

Word Forms

• mantillas

Synonyms for mantilla

Depending on context, synonyms include mantelet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mantelet, cape, mantelletta, vimpa, mantlet, romal.

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