mantelletta

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Organized in collaboration with the Textilmuseum in St. Gallen, Switzerland, the show presents scores of examples from the 16th to 21st centuries, including bobbin-lace and needle-lace borders, bonnets, mantelets and samplers.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022

In fact the next day they set to work, some to cut wood, others to gather it, for building and equipping the cavalier and mantelets.

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)

Light textures, only, are seasonable, and the genius of modists has wrought out beautiful and appropriate patterns for dresses, bonnets, mantelets, &c.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

How easily did the Romans, pushing forward under cover of their mantelets, clear away the rude entrenchments by which the Britons used formerly to secure themselves against attack.

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von

The mantelets of the windows were closed, and the horses set off at a gallop along the Rue Richelieu.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various