Noun: mantle
| Singular | mantle |
| Plural | mantles |
Sample Sentences
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The people of the village all said, "It could be none but the good-natured Dwarfs, who come by night tripping along with their feet covered with long mantles, as light as birds, and industriously perform for mankind their daily work." [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 95:]
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At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
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The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
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“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. [2019 April 18, Madeleine Schwartz, “How Should a Millennial Be?”, in The New York Review, →ISSN:]
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But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. [c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 1, scene 1; republished as Hamlet, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992, →ISBN, page 6:]
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the green mantle of the standing pool [c. 1605-1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear:]
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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 [1932 December, Robert E. Howard, “The Phoenix on the Sword”, in Weird Tales:]
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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. [1990, Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals, page 71]
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Molluscan bodies are broadly divided into two parts: a muscular foot and a shell-secreting mantle. [2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 8:]
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The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle. [2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:]
Nouns inflected like mantle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantel; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantellum (“covering, cloak”) (French manteau), diminutive of mantum (Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull. Doublet of manteau. See: Middle English Nouns '
mantel', Old English Nouns '
mæntel', Latin Nouns '
mantellum', French Nouns '
manteau', Spanish Nouns '
manto', Icelandic Nouns '
möttull'.