Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shawl or wrap.

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Examples

  • They were seated in the patio of the hotel, by a pool and the heroic bronze statue of a dancing girl in a manton; on the table between them was, at that hour, the inevitable small pitcher of Daiquiri cocktails.

    Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • When she returned she redressed her hair, drawing it back across her ears, put in at a provocative angle a fan-like carved shell comb, and twisted a shawl of flame-colored silk -- it was a manton, she instructed him -- about her shoulders.

    Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Melody: "We have started a prolife movement here in ..." kirk: "Anyone dumb enough to trust Romney to be ..." larry manton: "I don't listen to rush limbaugh, but?

    ProLifeBlogs 2009

  • Melody: "We have started a prolife movement here in ..." kirk: "Anyone dumb enough to trust Romney to be ..." larry manton: "I don't listen to rush limbaugh, but?

    ProLifeBlogs 2009

  • Melody: "We have started a prolife movement here in ..." kirk: "Anyone dumb enough to trust Romney to be ..." larry manton: "I don't listen to rush limbaugh, but?

    ProLifeBlogs 2009

  • Melody: "We have started a prolife movement here in ..." kirk: "Anyone dumb enough to trust Romney to be ..." larry manton: "I don't listen to rush limbaugh, but?

    ProLifeBlogs 2009

  • Melody: "We have started a prolife movement here in ..." kirk: "Anyone dumb enough to trust Romney to be ..." larry manton: "I don't listen to rush limbaugh, but?

    ProLifeBlogs 2009

  • Melody: "We have started a prolife movement here in ..." kirk: "Anyone dumb enough to trust Romney to be ..." larry manton: "I don't listen to rush limbaugh, but?

    ProLifeBlogs 2009

  • Melody: "We have started a prolife movement here in ..." kirk: "Anyone dumb enough to trust Romney to be ..." larry manton: "I don't listen to rush limbaugh, but?

    ProLifeBlogs 2009

  • Melody: "We have started a prolife movement here in ..." kirk: "Anyone dumb enough to trust Romney to be ..." larry manton: "I don't listen to rush limbaugh, but?

    ProLifeBlogs 2009

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