Crossword clues for mantilla
mantilla
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mantilla \Man*til"la\, n. [Sp. See Mantle.]
A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.
A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders; -- worn in Spain, Mexico, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of large veil, 1717, from Spanish mantilla, diminutive of manta (see manta).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Spanish lace veil worn over a woman's hair and shoulders. 2 A lady's light cloak or cape of silk, velvet, lace, or similar.
WordNet
n. a woman's silk or lace scarf
short cape worn by women [syn: mantelet]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "mantilla".
Hetherton liked being late at church, and so, notwithstanding that the Colonel had worked himself into a tempest of excitement, had tied and untied her bonnet-strings half a dozen times, changed her rich basquine for a thread lace mantilla, and then, just as the bell from St.
Markham and Miss Chubb seemed dowdy and overdressed beside the satin mantillas and black lace of the Senoritas.
Miss Chubb, the rounded dazzling whiteness of whose neck and shoulders half pleased and half frightened her in her low, white, plain camisa--under the lace mantilla.
There were about twenty tables, enough to assemble a miniature, artificial Santa Fe: society Spanish in heirloom mantillas, artists who had fled New York, cultists who had fled California, lawyers not sharp enough to practise law anywhere else, all sitting in the glow of stamped tin chandeliers.
Santa Fe: society Spanish in heirloom mantillas, artists who had fled New York, cultists who had fled California, lawyers not sharp enough to practice law anywhere else, all sitting in the glow of stamped tin chandeliers.
The dealers in coloured handkerchiefs from Barcelona or mantillas from Seville were driving a great trade, and the majority of them had long since shouted themselves hoarse.
By the great bridge, a woman, so wrapped up in a black mantilla that only the tip of her nose was visible, accosted me, and asked me to follow her into a house with an open door which she shewed me.
Before, Anny always used to carry an immense trunk full of shawls, turbans, mantillas, Japanese masks, pictures of Epinal.
Within half an hour she'd gotten the fabricants to spin her a mantilla filled with spidery copies of her name.
A woman with a lace mantilla hanging askew over a dress of horizon blue screamed encouragement to one side or the other.
She wore a wide shady hat trimmed with roses, in place of the eternal mantilla, and her grey-blue silk dress was far finer than any Spanish black.