What is a mantilla?

What is a mantilla? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A lace veil of Spanish origin worn over a woman's hair and shoulders.
  2. A woman's light cloak or cape made of silk, velvet, lace, or other material.
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It was a dime-store version of one of those Dolls from Many Countries, this one Spanish with a beet-red dress and a droopy mantilla on her head.
We look up at the sky through a fringe of leaves belonging to a locust tree or a mimosa, the rows of lacy leaves forming a mantilla overhead.
Suddenly, to his side comes what appears to be a Spanish queen in mantilla and lace.
One of the prides of the Barcelona museum is the rather conventional portrait of his first wife Olga in a mantilla.
As if all this were not enough, she also works with tulle, making all kinds of parasols and mantilla decorations for figurine heads and busts.
She looks out at the viewer, and the detailing of the mantilla has been embroidered onto the postcard's surface.

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