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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2017

Since then, she’s become a street icon in Paris for her black mantilla, beehive hairdo and voluminous black-and-white-shirts and skirts — a look from which she never deviates, even when running out for a baguette.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2014

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

She was a perfect replica of the beautiful dancers, dressed in a long, glittery gown with a pretty tortoise shell comb in her hair, from which cascaded a tiny, lacy mantilla.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez