Mantua meaning

măn'cho͝o-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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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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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

  • Some of his early Mantuan works are in that apartment of the Castello which is termed the Camera degli Sposi - full compositions in fresco, including various portraits of the Gonzaga family, and some figures of genii, &c. In 1488 he went to Rome at the request of Pope Innocent VIII., to paint the frescoes in the chapel of the Belvedere in the Vatican; the marquis of Mantua (Federigo) created him a cavaliere before his departure.

  • 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.

  • An idea of the effects of the survey may be gathered from the fact that the assessments in the four provinces of Mantua, Ancona, Cremona and Milan, which formerly amounted to a total of I,454,696~ are now 2,788,080, an increase of 91%.

  • ~Iilan Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Crema, Cremona, Lodi, Mantua, Pavia.

  • 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.

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