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Mantua

//ˈmæn.t(j)u.ə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Province of Lombardy, Italy.
  2. 2
    City and capital of Mantua.

    "He and I / Will watch thy waking, and that very night / Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua."

  3. 3
    A town in Pinar del Río, Cuba.
  4. 4
    A village in Ohio.
  5. 5
    A village in Utah.
Noun
  1. 1
    An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France.
  2. 2
    loose gown of the 17th and 18th centuries wordnet
  3. 3
    A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy. obsolete

    "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 […]"

  4. 4
    A woman's cloak or mantle. obsolete
  5. 5
    A woman's gown. obsolete

    "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’."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin Mantua.

Etymology 2

From French manteau, perhaps by confusion with Mantua in Italy.

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