mantle

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"A little away from them I saw a man in the prime of life, with his beard newly shorn, clad in a robe and mantle of yellow satin, and round the top of his mantle was a band of gold lace.

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  1. noun A loose sleeveless coat worn over outer garments; a cloak.
  2. noun Something that covers, envelops, or conceals: "On a summer night . . . a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads” (John Dollard).
  3. noun Variant of mantel.
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  • But the mantle was a good disguise, and he kept as much in the shadows as possible, turning away his head when a native passed him too closely. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • He could see the strange golden aura that surrounded her like a mantle, a glittering halo, backlit by the hearth fire. —  SexyBeastIV
  • A hotspot is the business end of what's known as a mantle plume, a stream of magma that rises hundreds of miles through a channel in the earth's crust like the blob in a lava lamp. —  The daily irrelevant
  • Hiding them around the mantle is a brilliant idea. —  Cracked: All Posts
  • During earlier phases of Earth's history, when the layer known as the mantle was still hot, lava from eruptions flowing into the oceans were very rich in nickel. —  News24
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  1. Middle English, from Old English mentel and from Old French mantel, both from Latin mantellum.

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  1. Formerly also mantel (still retained in the architectural sense), mantell; from Middle English mantel, mantylle, partly (a) from Anglo-Saxon mæntel, mentel = OFries. D. Middle Low German mantel = Old High German mantal, mandal, Middle High German mantel, mandel, German mantel = Icelandic möttull = Swedish Danish mantel, a cloak; partly (b) from Old French mantel, French manteau (later English manteau, manto, also mantua, q. v.), a cloak, a mantel (in architecture), = Provencal mantel, a cloak, = Spanish mantel, a table-cloth, = Italian mantello, a cloak; all from Latin mantellum, mantelum, a cloak, mantle, also mantele, mantelium, mantile, mantilium, a towel, napkin, table-cloth, whence also Italian mantile, mantle, = Portuguese mantilha = Spanish mantilla = Italian diminutive mantiglia, mantilla (later F. G. mantille = English mantilla, q. v.), a mantle; also (from Latin mantellum, regarded as diminutive) Middle Latin mantum, later Italian manto, ammanto = Spanish Portuguese manto, masculine, also Spanish Portuguese manta = French mante, feminine, a cloak; perhaps orig. a ‘hand-cloth,’ from manus, the hand, + tela, a web, texture: see toil. A similar reduction of manus to man- occurs in mansuete, mancipate, etc.
  2. from Middle English mantlen; from mantle, n.
 

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