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mantes

alt. (plural of mantis English) n. (plural of mantis English)

WordNet
mantis
  1. n. predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer [syn: mantid]

  2. [also: mantes (pl)]

mantes

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Mantes (disambiguation)

Mantes is the name or part of the name of three communes of France:

  • Mantes-la-Jolie in the Yvelines département
  • Mantes-la-Ville in the Yvelines département
  • Arnouville-lès-Mantes in the Yvelines département

Usage examples of "mantes".

Her boredom subsided in the early afternoon when they rolled into the town of Gram mantes, with its intact medieval city wall, its cobbled streets, quaintly gabled and timbered houses, and its ancient guild halls of rose-flecked Fabequais granite.

For many hours, until they stopped for the middday meal at some inn, probably in the town of Gram mantes, she would be seen by nobody other than Kairthe, who was scarcely apt to disapprove.

Highway, a broad, rutted, well-travelled way curving south through Fabeque like a slow dusty river, through the villages and hamlets, through ancient, sleepy towns such as Gram mantes, Fleuvine and Beronde, before crossing the Niay Rise into Sevagne Province, a great lush expanse of lake-riddled farmland, at whose southernmost point the capital city of Sherreen straddled the water of the River Vir like a colossus.

Gram mantes crafted gowns, which fit her almost perfectly, Kairthe now altered herself to suit the new garments.

Seguin was to take his wife and their friend Santerre to Mantes, to lunch there, by way of trying an electric motor-car, which he had just had built at considerable expense.