mantlet

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English mauntelet, from Old French mantelet, diminutive of mantel (“mantle”). Doublet of mantelletta.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmæntlət/
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Noun

An example of a mantlet (sense 2)

mantlet (plural mantlets)

  1. A short sleeveless cloak or cape.
  2. (military, now historical) A portable screen or other covering, especially as used to protect the approach of soldiers engaged in a siege.
    • 2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam, published 2011, page 947:
      Already their archers were stealing forward, pushing their rolling mantlets.
  3. (Christianity, chiefly Catholicism) A mantelletta.

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