Usage of "mantilla" | TermGallery

Catalan

Short cape worn by women.

Usage of mantilla in English

Mamma is being dressed in her black silk and her black mantilla. 
 Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe 

She threw the mantilla round her head, and turned toward the church. 
 Inez: A Tale of the Alamo 

Vera hastily wrapped herself in her mantilla, and stood up to go. 
 The Precipice 

So she put on her mantilla again and departed for the studio. 
 After Dark 

I wonder will she give Eulogia a mantilla when the chit marries. 
 The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California 

She gave a great sigh of relief and shook back her mantilla. 
 The Velvet Glove 

And do not ruin that mantilla, for thou wilt not get another. 
 The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California 

She had raised a white hand, holding a black-laced mantilla half aside. 
 Desert Gold 

Concha, alone, wore no color; her frock was white, her mantilla black. 
 Rezanov 

For reply the girl hid her face in the mantilla of her mother. 
 A Texas Matchmaker 

In her arms she held an infant, muffled in a white lace mantilla. 
 The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California 

She was dressed in a white morning-dress, a light cap and a mantilla. 
 Marie; a story of Russian love 

I've always seen the matador in his hats, the mantilla in his dresses. 
 The Guardian 

Of course with jet black eyes and hair, and a mantilla? 
 The Malady of the Century 

Eleanor had caught the fringe of her mantilla in the railing of the area. 
 Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing 

The lady ducked her head under her mantilla, and drew in a long breath. 
 Rolling Stones 

mantilla

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