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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



... against the Squire's project in a breath. Robin was perplexed indeed: his ambition was fired by the Squire's rosy pictures of what he, as a true Montfichet, must adhere to without fail upon assuming the name and mantle of Gamewell. ...
— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick
... in the bright Elysian bowers, Where the tall vine its lavish mantle spreads, Thou crown'st the goblet with unfading flowers, Sooth'd by the murmuring stream, ...
— Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace • Anna Seward
... haberdashers are a trifle! If that was all she might talk herself hoarse. Besides, I can stop that by the mantle department." ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... to no one, nor did anybody seem to take notice of me; I stood lonely enough: but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed; it did not oppress me much. I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger which gnawed me within, delivered myself up to the employment of watching and thinking. My reflections were too undefined and fragmentary to merit record: ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte
... means of which there was a descent into another room; and therefore, thinking to conceal his fault either wholly or in part, he threw himself into the opening, telling the lady to go and open the door. But his hope did not turn out as he expected; for the hem of a mantle which he had on caught upon a nail, and the lady opening the door meantime, in the belief that all would be well by reason of Polo's not being there, Gianciotto caught sight of Polo as he was detained by the hem of the mantle, and straightway ran with his dagger in ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt


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