Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mantua"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mantua \Man"tu*a\, n.
1. A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua
in Italy. [Obs.] --Beck (Draper's Dict.).
2. A woman's cloak or mantle; also, a woman's gown. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mantua
n : loose gown of the 17th and 18th centuries
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