mantletとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 mauntelet, from Old French mantelet, diminutive of mantel (“mantle”). Doublet of mantelletta.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmæntlət/

名詞

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 R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam, published 2011, page 947:

     Already their archers were stealing forward, pushing their rolling mantlets.

3. (Christianity, chiefly Catholicism) A mantelletta.

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