mantilla
Example Sentences
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The mirrored armoire, containing a small gauze dress and the artist’s lace wedding mantilla, is flanked by blown-glass cactuses as a symbol of immigrants’ resilience.
From New York Times
Five girls, photographed in front of a stone wall and scraggy hillside, have tricked themselves out in full Gothic-Victorian funeral garb: black lace mantillas, black fans, and teary marcelled locks.
From The New Yorker
It was his inheritance as a Spaniard—the aristocratic black of Velázquez, the Catholic black of the cassock, the mysterious black of the lace mantilla, the ebullient black of the bullfighter.
Time it right and you might encounter a wedding ceremony and women wearing lace mantillas elevated by ornate hair combs.
From New York Times
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
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