See mantua in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "manteau"
},
"expansion": "French manteau",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From French manteau, perhaps by confusion with Mantua in Italy.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mantuas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mantua (plural mantuas)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "45 37 13 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 36 21 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 39 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France."
],
"id": "en-mantua-en-noun-ivSbn66Y",
"links": [
[
"loose",
"loose"
],
[
"clothing",
"clothing"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "45 37 13 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 36 21 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 39 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1882, S. William Beck, The Draper's Dictionary:",
"text": "Anderson mentions black and coloured mantuas amongst other silks introduced here by the French immigrants of 1685. […] Mantuas are also included in a list of silks advertised for sale in the British Chronicle of 1763 […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy."
],
"id": "en-mantua-en-noun-w9hwgysE",
"links": [
[
"silk",
"silk"
],
[
"export",
"export"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "45 37 13 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 36 21 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 39 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 3 44 32",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Clothing",
"orig": "en:Clothing",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A woman's cloak or mantle."
],
"id": "en-mantua-en-noun-~SKK1PYC",
"links": [
[
"cloak",
"cloak"
],
[
"mantle",
"mantle"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A woman's cloak or mantle."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 9, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818:",
"text": "Her dress was extremely elegant, but had an appearance of foreign fashion, as if both the lady and her mantua-maker were of 'a far countree’.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A woman's gown."
],
"id": "en-mantua-en-noun-E5IbmGj6",
"links": [
[
"gown",
"gown"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A woman's gown."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"mantua (clothing)"
],
"word": "mantua"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from French",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Clothing"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "manteau"
},
"expansion": "French manteau",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From French manteau, perhaps by confusion with Mantua in Italy.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mantuas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mantua (plural mantuas)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France."
],
"links": [
[
"loose",
"loose"
],
[
"clothing",
"clothing"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1882, S. William Beck, The Draper's Dictionary:",
"text": "Anderson mentions black and coloured mantuas amongst other silks introduced here by the French immigrants of 1685. […] Mantuas are also included in a list of silks advertised for sale in the British Chronicle of 1763 […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy."
],
"links": [
[
"silk",
"silk"
],
[
"export",
"export"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A woman's cloak or mantle."
],
"links": [
[
"cloak",
"cloak"
],
[
"mantle",
"mantle"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A woman's cloak or mantle."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 9, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818:",
"text": "Her dress was extremely elegant, but had an appearance of foreign fashion, as if both the lady and her mantua-maker were of 'a far countree’.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A woman's gown."
],
"links": [
[
"gown",
"gown"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A woman's gown."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"mantua (clothing)"
],
"word": "mantua"
}
Download raw JSONL data for mantua meaning in English (2.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.