A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.
Same as Mantling.
The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.
Any free, outer membrane.
The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
A mantel. See Mantel.
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
A penstock for a water wheel.
To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.
To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
To spread out; -- said of wings.
To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. Henri Frederic Amiel
Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. Ron Fournier
I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused. Marlee Matlin
Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are. James Young
I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle. John Hawkes
mantle in Dutch is mantel, jas
mantle in Finnish is takki
mantle in French is manteau
mantle in Italian is velare
mantle in Latin is pallium
mantle in Spanish is embozar, abrigo
mantle in Swedish is mantel, kappa
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