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mantua

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Noun
 : 
Man=tu=a

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun mantua has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

mantuan. 
  •  A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.  Beck (Draper's Dict.).  [1913 Webster]
  •  A woman's cloak or mantle; also, a woman's gown.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mantua, n. hist. a woman's loose gown of the 17th-18th c.

Etymology
corrupt. of manteau (F, as MANTLE) after Mantua in Italy
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