mantuamaker
nounEtymology From mantua + maker, from mantua, a loose gown worn in the 18th century.
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A maker of women's clothes, especially dresses
- Pity that hyper-fashionable mantuamakers and milliners were not a little quicker at taking hints from some of our Doctors of Divinity.1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4: