Noun: mantua
| Singular | mantua |
| Plural | mantuas |
Sample Sentences
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Anderson mentions black and coloured mantuas amongst other silks introduced here by the French immigrants of 1685. […] Mantuas are also included in a list of silks advertised for sale in the British Chronicle of 1763 […] [1882, S. William Beck, The Draper's Dictionary:]
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Her dress was extremely elegant, but had an appearance of foreign fashion, as if both the lady and her mantua-maker were of 'a far countree’. [1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 9, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818:]
Nouns inflected like mantua
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French manteau, perhaps by confusion with Mantua in Italy. See: French Nouns '
manteau'.