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单词 mantua-maker
释义 ˈmantua-ˌmaker Obs. exc. Hist. or arch.
One who makes mantuas; later, a dress-maker.
1694Motteux Rabelais v. 237 Mantuamaker.1712Budgell Spect. No. 277 ⁋11 The most celebrated Tyre-women and Mantua-makers in Paris.1841in Hodder Life Ld. Shaftesb. (1886) I. 328 An enquiry into the state and treatment of the wretched milliners and mantua-makers.1886E. L. Bynner A. Surriage xv. 165 Get on your hat and go with me to the mantua-maker.
So mantua-making vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1704T. Brown Walk round London (1709) 41 That virtuous Profession Mantua-making.1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 76, I must soon quit my mantuamaking business.1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 287 The young mantua-making school-mistresses.
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