mantuamaking

English

Etymology

From mantua +‎ making.

Noun

mantuamaking (uncountable)

1. The manufacture of mantuas.
   • 1995, Elizabeth Jane Errington, Wives and Mothers, Schoolmistresses and Scullery Maids, page 199:

     The first specialized "mantuamaking business in all its branches" in Upper Canada was opened in York in 1808 by Maria de Dieman.

   • 1996, Elizabeth C. Sanderson, Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh, page 86:

     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.