Mantle

Quick meaning: Mantle is a noun meaning A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.

Meaning

A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
2. (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
3. (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
4. (ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
5. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
6. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
7. A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)

Example Sentences

the green mantle of the standing pool

At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.

The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.

But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.

Word Forms

• mantles
• mantling
• mantled

Synonyms for mantle

Depending on context, synonyms include pall, drape, pallium, drapery, blanket, mantel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pallium, pall, blanket, drape, drapery, curtain.

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