Her accounts with the great retail houses along Broad Street were always settled by checks on the Grindstone, as well as her obligations to the insatiable cormorants that trafficked in "robes and Manteaux" farther up town.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller
After the Blancs-Manteaux came the Hermits of St. Guillaume, or Guillemites, and later the Benedictines took it over.
"A Wanderer in Paris"
E. V. Lucas
But I took that girl down to New York twice with me and showed her how and what to buy there, instead of going to Spokane for her styles, and to-day she's got a thriving little business with a bully sign that we copied from them in the East -"Madame Elizabeth, Robes et Manteaux."
"Somewhere in Red Gap"
Harry Leon Wilson