different between cantlet vs mantlet

English

Diminutive of cantle with -et or -let.

cantlet (plural cantlets)

A piece; a fragment; a corner.
- Nor shield nor armour can their force oppose; Huge cantlets of his buckler strew the groun

From Middle English mauntelet, from Old French mantelet, diminutive of mantel (“mantle”). Doublet of mantelletta.

mantlet (plural mantlets)

A short sleeveless cloak or cape.
(military, now historical) A portable screen or other covering, especially as used to protect the approach of soldiers engaged in a siege.
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 947:
  Already their archers were stealing forward, pushing their rolling mantlets.
(Christianity, chiefly Catholicism) A mantelletta.

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