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Mantle   /mˈæntəl/   Listen
Mantle

noun
1.
The cloak as a symbol of authority.
2.
United States baseball player (1931-1997).  Synonyms: Mickey Charles Mantle, Mickey Mantle.
3.
The layer of the earth between the crust and the core.
4.
Anything that covers.  Synonym: blanket.
5.
(zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell.  Synonym: pallium.
6.
Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace.  Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantlepiece.
7.
Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window).  Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, pall.
8.
A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter.  Synonym: cape.
verb
(past & past part. mantled; pres. part. mantling)
1.
Spread over a surface, like a mantle.
2.
Cover like a mantle.



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"Mantle" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon the heathy hill are lying a' at rest, And the gloamin' spreads its mantle gray o'er the world's dewy breast, I'll take my plaid and hasten through yon woody dell unseen, And meet my bonnie lassie in ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... mantle, fair With goodly work of lustrous vair, Girt fast against her side she bare A sword whose weight bade all men there Quail to behold her face again. Save of a passing perfect knight Not great alone in force and fight It might not be for any might Drawn ...
— The Tale of Balen • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... English one, but with some admixture of Norman fashions. He wore tightly-fitting leg coverings, a garment somewhat resembling a blouse of blue cloth girded in by a belt at the waist, and falling in folds to the knee. Over his shoulders hung a short mantle of orange colour with a hood. On his head was a cap with a wide brim that was turned up closely behind, and projected in a pointed shovel shape in front. In his belt was a small dagger. He wore shoes of light yellow leather fastened by bands over the insteps. ...
— Wulf the Saxon - A Story of the Norman Conquest • G. A. Henty
... disturbed his serenity for a moment. He noticed a youthful air about her, a flame in her eyes, a something so alluring that he stopped to look at her. Tall and lovely, her long black gauze dress trailing behind, her shoulders covered by a lace mantle over which a garland of autumn leaves fell from her hat, she passed on, disappeared amid the throng of other women no less stylish than she, in a perfumed atmosphere; and the thought that his eyes were ...
— The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet
... the morning a messenger from M. le Duc d'Orleans came to remind me of the Regency Council at eight o'clock, and to attend it in my mantle. I dressed myself in black, because I had only that suit with a mantle, and another, a magnificent one in cloth of gold, which I did not wish to wear lest it should cause the remark to be made, though much out of season, that ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon


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