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noun

Mantelet n.

(a)

A short cloak formerly worn by knights.

(b)

A short cloak or mantle worn by women. "A mantelet upon his shoulders hanging."

(Fort.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; now commonly written mantlet.

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Etymology of 'Mantelet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mantelet" Quotes from Famous Books

... remembereth his worthies: They stumble in their march; They make haste to the wall thereof, And the mantelet is prepared. ...

— Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature • Various

... Est elle belle! Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux a flots! Sous son mantelet elle cache une aile, Son bonnet charmant est a ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... drapery, that they cannot help being picturesque and noble. See, kneeling by the side of two of those fine devout-looking figures, is a lady in a little twiddling Parisian hat and feather, in a little lace mantelet, in a tight gown and a bustle. She is almost as monstrous as yonder figure of the Virgin, in a hoop, and with a huge crown and a ball and a sceptre; and a bambino dressed in a little hoop, and in a little ...

— Little Travels and Roadside Sketches • William Makepeace Thackeray

Words linked to "Mantelet" : mantlet, shelter