Word Meanings - MANTUAMAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.

MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
WOMEN
pl. of Woman.
DRESSMAKER
A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which