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mantilja
A lace veil of Spanish origin worn over a woman's hair and shoulders.
(quote-journal))|month=July|year=1836|volume=IX|page=73|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=GEgFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA73|oclc=5140771156|passage=My eyes were oft times on the charmante maitresse de la maison, who glided among her guests in her flowing Spanish mantilla, and train of the clearest blonde, doing her devoirs with winning kindness, and showing how much benevolence of manner adds to beauty.
(quote-journal), (Successor to the late w:James Fraser (publisher)|James Fraser)|month=August|year=1842|volume=XXVI|issue=CLII|page=223|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMURAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223|oclc=5899443|passage=Still the mantilla preserved its sway; it had taken a fast hold of the affections of all classes of the feminine gender; and there is now as much chance of driving roast-beef from our shores as there is of transporting black mantillas. (..) no squire's lady, no duke's duchess, no countess, and no queen, can or need, in these days of mantillas, be without one of these coverlids for the shoulders, these hiders of all deformities, and these friends to all ages and proportions. For there are mantillas from seven shillings to seven pounds,—of all sizes and shapes, with or without fringe, lace, tassels, and other ornaments.
(quote-journal) Black lace shawls and mantillas will always be in the best taste—the Spanish origin of the w:Eugénie de Montijo|Empress Eugénie, having given her a penchant for these articles, the national mantilla of her country, of which we have borrowed the name.
A woman's light cloak or cape made of silk, velvet, lace, or other material.
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