A Mantua
is an article
of women's
clothing
worn in
the late
seventeenth
century
and eighteenth
century.
Originally
a loose
gown,
the later
mantua was
an overgown
or
robe
typically
worn over
an underdress
or stomacher
and
petticoat.
From this
garment
arose the
term
mantua-maker,
an early
term for
a women's
dressmaker.
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