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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



... discovered that the large wagonette and the pony-carriage could accommodate the whole party, and accordingly, soon after eleven o'clock, they started in the highest possible spirits—even Miss Nelson casting away her mantle of care for the time, and Mr. Wilton, who had now thoroughly entered into the spirit of the fun, enjoying himself as much as the ...
— The Children of Wilton Chase • Mrs. L. T. Meade
... her. In their thoughts they approached nearer and nearer to her, to the inner truth of her. The street and the town of Willow Springs were covered with a mantle of silence. Was it the silence of death? Had her mother died? Did her mother sit there now a dead thing in the ...
— Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories • Sherwood Anderson
... darkness her splendour and brightness cover, Like clouds above the glory of purple mountain peaks; She sits with her proud head bowed, and a mantle of blackness over— She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are ...
— The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems • Kate Seymour Maclean
... white, with a black cap on the head, a pearl-blue mantle, and silver-black shades on the long wing-feathers, which look as if they had hoar frost ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... have kept his word better. But he is my father, and I must not judge him too hardly. I will now go down to the evening meal." So saying, he sprang up and threw on his furred mantle. ...
— Sintram and His Companions • Friedrich de la Motte Fouque


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