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noun
- A short sleeveless cloak or cape.
- (military) A portable screen or other covering, especially as used to protect the approach of soldiers engaged in a siege.
- 1819: They bring forward mantelets and pavisses, and the archers muster on the skirts of the wood like a dark cloud before a hailstorm. " Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Etymology: From Old French Old French, mantelet, diminutive of mantel "mantle".
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