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German
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mantilla or French mantille.
Pronunciation
Noun
Mantille f (genitive Mantille, plural Mantillen)
- mantilla
1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 184:Sie reichte dem Gast aus der Mantille heraus die Hand, eine magere, gelbliche, hoch geäderte, mit Ringen geschmückte Hand, und fuhr fort, ihn nickend anzublicken.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Further reading
- “Mantille” in Duden online
- “Mantille” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache