Definition of "mantuamaker" [man•tu•a•mak•er]

• A maker of women's clothes, especially dresses (noun)

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• "She decidedly chooses rather to be a mantuamaker and milliner, than go to service."
• "It appears that Margaret Reay was the daughter of a stay-maker in Covent-garden, and served her apprenticeship to a mantuamaker."
• "The white tontongee still girdled her loins; but Coomba's climate was her mantuamaker, and indicated more necessity for ornament than drapery."