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Meanings of mantua maker in English

Russian
модельер
Portuguese
costureiro
Catalan
costurera
Spanish
costurera
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Person who makes custom clothing for men and women.

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модельер
Usage of mantua maker in English
1
This is no time for wasting weeks with milliners and mantua makers.
In Freedom's Cause : A Story of Wallace and Bruce
2
Meanwhile all Claudia Merlin's time was taken up with milliners, mantua makers, and jewelers.
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
3
A few of them had their Sunday dresses made by fashionable mantua makers in Washington.
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
4
To-morrow morning I shall send for milliners and mantua makers, so that they may want for nothing.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 03
5
So many birth-day suits were countermanded the next day, that most of the tailors and mantua makers discharged all their journeymen and women.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 / Swift's Wr...