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This isn't a photography post, but sometimes inaccuracies really bother me. The three women in the first photograph are described as "dressed in La Mantilla (the mantle)". A mantilla isn't a mantle -- it's a mantilla -- the same word is used in English and in Spanish. A mantilla is a piece of lace which is worn over a woman's head, very often draped over the large combs that these women have in their hair.
Had to get that off my chest.
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Spanish women dressed in La Mantilla for Semana Santa. Photograph by Peter Turnley. Turnley in Spain: It's exciting when we get to see a new photo essay by TOP's unofficial Foreign Correspondent, Peter Turnley. Peter's been in Seville teaching a workshop, and he's taken the opportunity to do a...
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