The women arrived, decked out in holiday attire, and wearing their mantillas for the funeral; the girls disputed energetically as to who should be one of the four to carry the poor little Bishop to the cemetery.
It was nearly daylight, and several women with bowed heads, their mantillas falling over their eyes, were passing in front of the iron grating.
They pay by the week for making mantillasand cloaks.
I was told it is best to learn to make mantillas with those who sew for the mantilla merchants.
A gentleman told me that, not long since, he saw an advertisement by a mantilla manufacturer for men to make mantillas and cloaks.
The slits in the ponchos are stitched up, and both ponchos and mantillas being sewn together are fixed to a pole or bar of wood, which is hoisted to a proper position on the mast.
Already this gleam of fair weather has filled the Calle de Comercio with festive senoritas, arrayed in white mantillas and Manila shawls in honor of the bull-fight.
The Spanish colors floated out from city hall and court-house, but the great concourse below was all in hues of mourning, the black mantillas often falling over dresses of plain purple.
The beautiful black eyes so discreetly directed looked as often from mantillas as hats, even in Madrid, which is the capital, and much infested by French fashions.
They wore hats and mantillas in about the same proportion; but the bride wore a black mantilla and a black dress with sprigs of orange blossoms in her hair and on her breast for the only note of white.
We had already enjoyed the first entr'acte, when the men all rose and went out, or lighted fresh cigars and went to talk with the Paris hats and plumes or the Spanish mantillas and high combs in the boxes.
The women wore black mantillas over their elaborate coiffures--just as the poorer class do at church in Italy--but the sparkle of diamonds and the dull sheen of the pearls were but hardly veiled.
Beautifully-dressed women with filmy lacemantillas over their shining hair, attended by well-groomed men in opera hats and white cashmere scarves, descended from the vehicles and entered this or that theatre.
It was certainly as interesting to the Spanish women to observe the peculiarities of our costumes as it was for us to notice the mantillas and gay bodices which gave them a picturesque appearance in our eyes.
Ladies in mantillas would pass on their way to the late Mass at midday, a brougham drawn by handsome mules would go by, or, if it were a holiday, a few girls of the people wore embroidered shawls.
Two dark-eyed ladies came out from a tranquil patio; they wore white mantillasin honor of their visits to the Blessed Sacrament.
Black-haired Andalusian women wear black lacemantillas draped over their heads, a kind of veil and shawl.
Black lace mantillas are draped over very tall combs in their hair, and a gay flower is usually pinned behind one ear.
It came to me from my great-grandmother, as all the best ones do come to Spanish girls; and I’ve two lovely white mantillas which I wear on great feast days when I want to be very beautiful.
A movement among the party, shawls andmantillas were sought for on all sides; and the preparations for leave-taking appeared general.
Flicker through the greenish lamplight of the clattering cobbled streets flushed faces of men women in mantillas children with dark wide eyes, teeth flashing as they sing: La santa Virgen es en parto a las dos va desparir.
Beetred faces of women whose black mantillas have slipped from their sleek and gleaming hair, streaming faces of men.
Two ladies, to whom he made the same proposition, and who rejected it, we afterwards observed in a sad condition, their mantillas nearly torn off and the palm-branches sweeping across their eyes.
The mantillas are white or black blonde; the shoes white or coloured satin.
A few ladies in black gowns and mantillas called this morning, and various men.
I was carried off my feet between two fat Señoras in mantillas and shaking diamond pendants, exactly as if I had been packed between two moveable feather-beds.
But I certainly did not see one English lady there, notwithstanding the numbers of Spanish mantillas which might have kept them in countenance.
Their dress was stylish; their slippers beautiful and small; their black lace mantillas waving round their hair; their dress completely of black, made their figures seem elegant and their countenances interesting.
Black mantillas covered their beautifully-dressed hair, and in addition to their rosaries, each carried a fan.
In the streets ladies wearing mantillas and the costumes of black brocaded satin that they reserve for religious ceremonials were hastening, rosaries in hand, from one church to another.
One or two ladies in mantillas were marketing, attended by maids whose hair, dressed in a single pleat, showed beneath the rebozillo that is the national head-covering of the country-women.
Monks, as we said in our preface, are gone, mantillas are going, the shadow of cotton versus corn has already darkened the sunny city of Figaro, and the end of all Spanish things is coming.
The haughty elegant women of Monterey drew their mantillas more closely about their shocked faces as they passed La Pérdida sweeping the dirt into little heaps.
The veranda was crowded with girls, the sparkling faces draped in black mantillas or bright rebosos, the full gay gowns fluttering in the breeze.
They do little shopping themselves, these señoras and señoritas, yet they are very devout, and it is their custom to wrap themselves in their black mantillas and attend mass every day.
If we begin to apologize—” She shrugged her shoulders and lowered her lashes to the hats and mantillas below.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mantillas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
