mantilla

Example Sentences

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In one, his head is thrown back in a gesture that could be interpreted as laughter or ecstasy; in another, he wears a mantilla and prays.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024

At the end, two Madonnas: the pop star herself, in a mantilla, and Cardi B, pregnant in Moschino, instructing the photographers on how best to capture her.

From New York Times • May 8, 2018

Her refined black-lace mantilla, Katzew says, is virtually unique in the casta painting genre.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2017

This has been compared to a mashrabiya, and a mantilla, and an abstraction of a Cézanne painting, but its architect, Ricciotti, says it is "the rocky bottom of the ocean, lifted up".

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2013

I tried to look as holy as possible, but the white mantilla tickled my neck and the sides of my face.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago