mantua

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The fabric of Taryn’s is gorgeous, the cut of her mantua and stomacher perfect.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

“Madam,” I pressed, “I have it on the best authority that among the finest mantua makers of London, the pannier is no longer the mode.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

This is no time for wasting weeks with milliners and mantua makers.

From In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Our great-great-grandmothers here in America wore Paris fashions shown on the imported fashion dolls and made up in brocades from China, by the Colonial mantua makers.

From Woman as Decoration by Burbank, Emily

A few of them had their Sunday dresses made by fashionable mantua makers in Washington.

From The Man in Gray by Dixon, Thomas