Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with a mantle or a mantelet; protected.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mantle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak
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Examples
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A dark expression mantled Napoleon's face, and, bending an angry glance on Duroc, he said, "It is well known that you were always foolishly in love with the Queen of Prussia, and, according to your statement, one might believe there was no woman in the whole world so beautiful as she is."
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan
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What we witnessed from the first was a half-mantled Ikea wardrobe ( "mantled" being the opposite of "dismantled", which I feel is the right word to use here even if it's theoretically wrong) in her bedroom, lying on its side.
Sheylara.com 2010
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It's called "mantled" because it looks as if it's just draped over, or mantling, the topography underneath.
Tucson Weekly 2010
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It was positively with trepidation that he presented himself before her very soon after his arrival; and an undeniable blush "mantled" his cheek -- if a blush can be said with any propriety to mantle the male cheek --- when he marched into the drawing-room, where she was doing a dainty bit of embroidery, and with much simplicity and directness said, "You said I might come, you know, and I have come; and I begged of Ethel to come too, but she could not leave my aunt," before he had so much as shaken hands.
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But when, at last, she slowly lifted her eyes and held their gaze steadily, it was his own eyes that dropped, his own cheek that mantled red.
Chapter 2 2010
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Those ferocious horns, those wide and wise eyes, that noble muzzle all mantled in whiskers—
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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He fondly recalls the Via Clelia mantled in snow and then corrects himself: This was the Irish snow of Joyce's "The Dead" lending the street "a luster that would never have existed outside of books"—or in Italy.
Booking a Journey Elizabeth Lowry 2011
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Groaning and mantled in blood, Dylan pulled himself back up the door.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Again Ruth nodded, and again a blush mantled her face.
Chapter 19 2010
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They were mantled with black and blue marks that advertised the weight and number of blows so shielded from his head and face.
THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010
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