mantlet
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Etymology edit
From Middle English mauntelet, from Old French mantelet, diminutive of mantel (“mantle”). Doublet of mantelletta.
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mantlet (plural mantlets)
- A short sleeveless cloak or cape.
- (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.
- (Christianity, chiefly Catholicism) A mantelletta.