different between mantelet vs mantlet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæntl?t/

Noun

mantelet (plural mantelets)

1. Alternative form of mantlet
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     They bring forward mantelets and pavisses, and the archers muster on the skirts of the wood like a dark cloud before a hailstorm.

French

Noun

mantelet m (plural mantelets)

1. mantle (piece of clothing)
2. (military) mantelet, shielding

Further reading

• “mantelet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

mantelet m (oblique plural mantelés, nominative singular mantelés, nominative plural mantelet)

1. small coat

English

Alternative forms

• mantelet

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæntl?t/

Noun

mantlet (plural mantlets)

1. A short sleeveless cloak or cape.
2. (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.

3. (Christianity, chiefly Catholicism) A mantelletta.

Related terms

• gun mantlet

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