Mantuamaker

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A maker of women's clothes, especially dresses

    "Pity that hyper-fashionable mantuamakers and milliners were not a little quicker at taking hints from some of our Doctors of Divinity."

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"Pity that hyper-fashionable mantuamakers and milliners were not a little quicker at taking hints from some of our Doctors of Divinity."

Etymology

From mantua + maker, from mantua, a loose gown worn in the 18th century.

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