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Webster 1913 Edition
Mantelet
1.
(a)
A short cloak formerly worn by knights.
(b)
A short cloak or mantle worn by women.
A
mantelet
upon his shoulders hanging. Chaucer.
2.
(Fort.)
A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; – now commonly written
mantlet
.