Mantua definition

măncho͝o-ə, -to͝o-ə
A woman's garment of the 1600s and 1700s consisting of a bodice and full skirt cut from a single length of fabric, with the skirt designed to part in front to reveal a contrasting underskirt.
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A city of northern Italy south-southwest of Verona. Originally an Etruscan settlement, it is noted as the birthplace of the Roman poet Virgil (70 bc ).
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A mantle or loose gown or cloak formerly worn by women.
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(place) Commune in Lombardy, N Italy: birthplace of Virgil.
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An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France.
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Province of Lombardy, Italy.
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City and capital of Mantua.

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

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Noun

Singular:
mantua
Plural:
mantuas

Origin of mantua

  • Alteration (influenced by Mantua) of manteau

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French manteuil

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin Mantua.

    From Wiktionary

Mantua Sentence Examples

  • The kingdom is divided into 69 provinces, 284 regions, of which 197 are classed as circondarii and 87 as districts (the latter belonging to the province of Mantua and the 8 provinces of Venetia), 1806 administrative divisions (mandamenti) and 8262 communes.

  • She was the last heiress of the great house of Canossa, whose fiefs stretched from Mantua across Lombardy, passed the Apennines, included the Tuscan plains, and embraced a portion of the duchy of Spoleto.

  • In April 1167 a new league was formed between Cremona, Bergamo, Brescia, Mantua and Ferrara.

  • Lucchinos brother John, arch bishop of Milan, now assumed the lordship of the city, and extended the power of the Visconti over Genoa and the whole of north Italy, with the exception of Piedmont, Verona, Mantua, Ferrara and Venice.

  • The last scions of the Della Scala family still reigned in Verona, the last Carraresi in Padua; the Estensi were powerful in Ferrara, the Gonzaghi in Mantua.

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