mantlet

• mantelet

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæntlət/

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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 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Tyrion [Lannister]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 779:

     Already their archers were stealing forward, pushing their rolling mantlets.

3. (Christianity, chiefly Catholicism) A mantelletta.

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