Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
mantua or manteau.
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Examples
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What you'll find now: house-made beef dumplings such as manty and pelmeni, lamb - and potato-stuffed hand pies known as shorpa, house-baked lepeshka bread, and lagman,
Chicago Reader 2009
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So how manty people here have faced arbitary detention over not having the right id papers?
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A totally different dish than East Asian manty (like the ones I had at Gan Eden two weeks ago), Turkish manti are tiny and served topped with yogurt sauce.
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This is actually a very difficult problem for manty people but it has not yet been solved by anyone
The Conservative Conference Is Irrelevant Newmania 2008
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We would criticise people clothing (manty hose anyone?) we were billigerent to our bosses, I would frequently run down hallways making airplane noises and swinging my arms.
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Everyone here calls it Beaches,,,it's like to me Rogers Center will always be the Skydome...no matter how manty times I am corrected
space 2006
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She was always a mighty good hand at it, an 'could cut out as nice as a born manty-maker.
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You've got a new manty-maker, mother; where's Jane Morris, name o 'goodness?'
Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale
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Carline Gallup was a manty-maker -- What, Kier? ruther apt to talk? well, I know she was; but then she used to be sewin ''t old Winkle's about half the time, and she know'd purty well what went on there: yes, I know sewin'-gals is ginerally tattlers ....
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887
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The manty maker had told me that day, that there was two or three new agents with new kinds of sewin 'machines jest come to Jonesville, and I was tellin' Josiah on it, when we met a middle-aged man, and he looked at us pretty close, and finally he asked us as he passed by, if we could tell him where Josiah Allen lived.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Various 1887
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