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

Yet when Mrs. Trump shook his hand, a black mantilla draped over her hair, his face crinkled into a smile.

From New York Times • May 28, 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

My yellow dress stood out like a shout I tried to quiet by draping my black mantilla over my shoulders.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez