The half-length portrait depicts a young woman dressed in typical Spanish attire, a white shirt and a black mantilla.

Just inside the glass wall, on the very back bench, knelt a white-haired woman wearing an old-style black mantilla.

Vatican protocol for papal audiences formerly required that women wear a long black dress with a high collar and long sleeves, and a black mantilla.

Also a black mantilla is traditionally worn when a woman has an audience with the Pope and a white mantilla is appropriate for a church wedding, but can be worn at other ceremony occasions as well.

They sat in a cluster, beautiful women in their forties, heavy and dark, looking like nuns with their black mantillas and their rosaries.

It was Mrs Capelli, wearing a black mantilla on her head.

Mother and daughter wore sober black suits and black mantillas.

Would he wear a black mantilla?

Kathryn Harrison, the author of a scandalous book about an incestuous relationship with her father, is caught in vertiginous Roman profile, wearing a dramatic black mantilla, her face as perdurable as marble.

Under normal conditions, other women may wear black dresses with black mantillas At times, when newlyweds are presented to the Pope, the bride may wear her Bridal dress.