Mantle

/ˈmæn.təl/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
2. (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
3. (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
4. (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
5. (ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
6. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
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.)
8. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

Example Sentences

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.

“The great millennial novelist”—the mantle has been thrust, by Boomers and Gen Xers alike, upon the Irish writer Sally Rooney, whose two carefully observed and gentle comedies of manners both appeared before her twenty-eighth birthday. With this mantle have come prizes and money. Nearly every review has mentioned at least the prizes.

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

the green mantle of the standing pool

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars

He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle.

Molluscan bodies are broadly divided into two parts: a muscular foot and a shell-secreting mantle.

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• mantles
• mantling
• mantled

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