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Mantled

adjective
1.
Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.  Synonyms: cloaked, clothed, draped, wrapped.  "Fog-cloaked meadows" , "A beam draped with cobwebs" , "Cloud-wrapped peaks"



Mantle

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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"Mantled" Quotes from Famous Books



... the hour when the Morning star goeth forth to herald light upon the earth, the star that saffron-mantled Dawn cometh after, and spreadeth over the salt sea, then grew the burning faint, and the flame died down. And the Winds went back again to betake them home over the Thracian main, and it roared with a violent swell. Then the son of Peleus turned away from the burning and lay ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer (Lang, Leaf, Myers trans.)

... false, you had not needed to have so often asked of me that question," Mona replied with a cynical expression, and hoarse, sepulchral voice, that, whilst it seemed to vindicate herself, reproved her fellow, on whose face an air of horror now mantled, ...
— The Advocate • Charles Heavysege

... condition it is yours," said Emma, while the rich blush that mantled cheek and brow, made her more beautiful than ever as she severed from her queenly head one of the longest of the luxurient tresses with ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 • Various

... mantled in the gloom of grief, Foes like loving brothers sorrowed round the great ...
— Maha-bharata - The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse • Anonymous

... Like the smoke Pillared o'er Sodom, when day broke— I saw Him. One magnific pall Mantled in massive fold and fall His head, and coiled in snaky swathes About His feet; night's black, that bathes All else, broke, grizzled with despair, Against the soul of blackness there. A gesture told the mood within— That wrapped right hand which based the chin,— That intense ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden


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