单词 | manola |
释义 | Manolan. 1. A type of colourful Spanish or Latin American shawl. ΚΠ 1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain xxi. 297 What Manolas, what reds and yellows, what fringes and flounces. 1927 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 657/1 The modern flapper costume..has driven out..the mantilla, and the wonderful Mexican shawl, the ‘Manola’. 2. A Spanish peasant woman or girl, esp. in traditional colourful dress. ΚΠ 1889 M. S. van de Velde Cosmopolitan Recoll. III. iii. 91 Instead of the weeds of an exiled Empress, she wore defiantly the tinkling costume of a Sevillan Manola. 1991 J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. v. 83 A stylized Andalusian in a mantilla, shawl or bright red scarf, hair piled up in a chignon—pretty as a picture-postcard ‘Manola’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846 |
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