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manteau - What does it mean?

Definition of 'manteau'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A cloak or gown, especially of a kind popular with women in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 915:
  • Not to mention the need to keep her manteau from becoming a sort of anti-parachute which sought to lift her free of the pavement.
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