Definition of Mantoes

1. manto [n] - See also: manto

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mantoes

mantle zone
mantled
mantled ground squirrel
mantled guereza
mantled guerezas
mantlepiece
mantlepieces
mantles
mantlet
mantletree
mantletrees
mantlets
mantling
mantlings
manto
mantoes (current term)
mantologist
mantologists
mantology
mantos
mantou
mantra
mantralike
mantram
mantrams
mantrap
mantraps
mantras
mantric
mantua

Literary usage of Mantoes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity (1858)
"(1.) Ward was bound an apprentice by indentures to Robert Ward of Darlington, and served him 7 yeares. Wm. Bell. (2.) mantoes is a ..."

2. Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"... a pretty effect with their oriental-looking jalousies ; and crowds of pedestrians—militars, civicos, and saya-y-mantoes were thronging the trottoirs. ..."

3. Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"... a pretty effect with their oriental-looking jalousies ; and crowds of pedestrians—militars, civicos, and saya-y-mantoes were thronging the trottoirs. ..."

4. Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan by Frederick Tupper, James Waddell Tupper (1914)
"If you have blacks of any kind, brought in of late; mantoes velvet scarfs petticoats let it be what it will—I am your cbap for all my ladies are very fond ..."

5. The Beggar's Opera by John Christopher Pepusch, John Gay (1920)
"If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late ; mantoes —Velvet Scarfs Petticoats Let it be what it will 1 am your Chap for all my Ladies are very fond ..."

6. The Language of Color by Matthew Luckiesh (1918)
"—SHAKESPEARE. "I will possess him of yellowness." "Jealous piques, Which th' ancients wisely signified By th' yellow mantoes of the bride." —Idem. —BUTLER. ..."

7. The Beggar's Opera: As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields by John Christopher Pepusch, John Gay (1728)
"... brought in of late; mantoes — Velvet Scarfs — Petticoats — Let it be what it will•— I am your Chap — for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning. , . ..."

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