Home › Words › M › mantuamakermantuamakermantuamaker means A maker of women's clothes, especially dresses.EtymologyFrom mantua + maker, from mantua, a loose gown worn in the 18th century.nounA maker of women's clothes, especially dressese.g.“Pity that hyper-fashionable mantuamakers and milliners were not a little quicker at taking hints from some of our Doctors of Divinity.” — 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).