1. mantuan - Noun
2. mantuan - Adjective
3. Mantuan - Proper noun
Of or pertaining to Mantua.
A native or inhabitant of Mantua.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt was only at the end of the 19th century that those following the reform of Tourraine (by this time known as the "strict observance") and the Mantuan Congregation were formally merged under one set of Constitutions. Source: Internet
The War of the Mantuan Succession broke out, and in 1630 an Imperial army of 36,000 Landsknecht mercenaries besieged Mantua, bringing the plague with them. Source: Internet
Under the Mantuan observance, entrance to the cloister was forbidden to outsiders, the friars were banned from being outside the convent without good reason, and money was distributed from a common chest. Source: Internet