mantua-maker

George was ordering new jewels and crown and fussing over his Coronation dress, Carolyn had her mantua-maker attend both herself and Lady Hood and Lady Anne

Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006

She recommended that Mrs. Webbe, her former mantua-maker opposite Pall

Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006

Mrs. Mittin knew a mantua-maker who, to oblige her, would undertake this for a very small payment; and she promised to procure everything else that was necessary for the merest trifle.

Camilla 2008

Collytus gets a livelihood out of a cloak business, and Menon as a mantua-maker, and so, again, more than half the Megarians212 by the making of vests.

Memorabilia 2007

Adele Tremont: A Huguenot widow who works as a mantua-maker and dresses the most fashionable women of the city.

City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

Manon waited until the mantua-maker had gone, then took a large handful of salt from the cannister beside the hearth and dumped it into the soup.

City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

Manon waited until the mantua-maker had gone, then took a large handful of salt from the cannister beside the hearth and dumped it into the soup.

City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

Adele Tremont: A Huguenot widow who works as a mantua-maker and dresses the most fashionable women of the city.

City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

In a great hand, with wide lines, were written a set of directions to her mantua-maker, setting forth the articles of dress for which my Lady had need, the peculiarity of their make, the stuff she selected, &c.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

‘Her mistress’s mantua-maker, the maid replied, lived but a little way off: and she doubted not that she could procure her, or one of the journey-women to alter the gown out of hand.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006