mantua

name

1. Province of Lombardy, Italy.
2. City and capital of Mantua.

   “He and I / Will watch thy waking, and that very night / Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.”

3. A town in Pinar del Río, Cuba.
4. A village in Ohio.
5. A village in Utah.

noun

1. An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France.
2. (obsolete)A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.

   “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 […]”

3. (obsolete)A woman's cloak or mantle.
4. (obsolete)A woman's gown.

   “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’.”