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English

mantle +? -est

mantlest

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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