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- A loose outer garment resembling a cassock or coat, often sleeveless, worn by soldiers over armour or by menservants as a type of overcoat.
1859, Robert Nares with James O[rchard] Halliwell and Thomas Wright, A Glossary; or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, etc., which have been Thought to Require Illustration, in the Words of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, new edition, volumes II (K–Z), London: John Russell Smith, 36, Soho Square, →OCLC, pages 543–544:†MANDILION. A soldier's cloak or cassock. "A loose cassock, such as souldiers used to wear." Blount. It was also called a mandevile. The name was derived from the Italian. A loose hanging garment, much like to our jacket or jumps, but without sleeves, only having holes to put the arms through; yet some were made with sleeves, but for no other use than to hang on the back. Randle Holme.