Meanings
- uncountableThe manufacture of mantuas.
The first specialized "mantuamaking business in all its branches" in Upper Canada was opened in York in 1808 by Maria de Dieman.
1995, Elizabeth Jane Errington, Wives and Mothers, Schoolmistresses and Scullery Maids, page 1991 more example
When Bell Sinclair arrived back in Caithness very ill after a period of mantuamaking in Edinburgh, with no means of her own, she wrote to her uncle informing him that her cousins the Barrocks had refused to help her.
1996, Elizabeth C. Sanderson, Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh, page 86
Origin
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