How To Use mantilla In A Sentence
- Modest and tasteful poverty expressed itself in the speckless cleanliness and the modestly proportioned skirts of her light “print” gown, and in the scanty little mantilla of cheap black silk which she wore over it, edged with a simple frilling of the same material. Armadale
- They make delightful reading during those periods when Senorita Meller is changing mantillas, and, in case she should run out of songs before she runs out of mantillas, we offer a few new synopses for her repertoire.
- The mantilla was a handsome one, and she thanked Mrs. Ross effusively. The Tin Box and What it Contained
- One of the prides of the Barcelona museum is the rather conventional portrait of his first wife Olga in a mantilla.
- Her fat, massive face was painted and powdered; on her head she wore a kind of mantilla also gold-coloured, and about her neck a string of old Egyptian amulets. Love Eternal
- All the other really posh women wore mantillas.
- The flowing lace adornment, reaching from the head to the shoulders, and from thence thrown in graceful folds over the back and one arm, is called the "mantilla," and is the characteristic costume of the ladies of Spain. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
- Spanish dress, with women often covering their heads with a garment called a mantilla, especially during church services in the south of the country. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
- She looks out at the viewer, and the detailing of the mantilla has been embroidered onto the postcard's surface.
- The rosary was left at home, and the lace mantilla gave way to a demure circlet. BARN BLIND