Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of cloth suitable for making mantles or the like.—2. In the manufacture of alum from aluminous shales or alum ores, a layer of calcined shale spread over a partly or completely calcined heap of the same material, to moderate the heat, prevent loss of sulphur, and protect the mass from the detrimental effects of wind and rain during the calcination and cooling.
- noun In heraldry: The drapery which is often used as a background to a shield, crest, etc., originally perhaps the mantelet of the helmet or cointoise.
- noun A mantelet, lambrequin, or cointoise. Also
mantle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Her.) The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also
lambrequin .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
mantle . - noun heraldry The
representation of amantle , or thedrapery behind and around acoat of arms .
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Examples
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The music, as well as his words, had floated to the deep bay window; the curtains had swiftly and noiselessly parted, and she was stealing after his retreating figure with an expression mantling her face which brought out every detail of its great beauty.
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Sohothin engulfed the weapon, fire mantling the hammerhead.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Sohothin engulfed the weapon, fire mantling the hammerhead.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Sohothin engulfed the weapon, fire mantling the hammerhead.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Sohothin engulfed the weapon, fire mantling the hammerhead.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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The Romney campaign is better at dismantling than mantling.
Low Turnout and the Big Tune-Out Peggy Noonan 2012
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The act of hiding the food with outspread wings and tail while it eats is called “mantling.”
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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Fire flies to it and begins mantling as she eats it.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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He spreads his wings and tail over the prize, mantling, as he tears at the meat.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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Like I said previously, your boy handles almost perfectly (I wished that grenades could be thrown a bit farther) and there are no problems with the running, jumping, crouching or mantling (climbing over obstacles) mechanics.
Review: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – The Review Crew 2010
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