manta

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl
noun extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned

From Spanish manta (“blanket”).

), the Comte d'Artois, afterwards Charles X. emigrated in 1789, and went to Turin and Mantas for 1789 and 1790. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
[1] En los andenes se movían pesadamente los huasos con mantas de vivos colores, zapatos de taco alto, haciendo resonar las espuelas de ancha rodaja. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
When there are any such squaloid around the fishing place, no day passes without there being "knots to untie," between the divers and the tintoreras, as well as the pez mantas, and, almost always, the men only cut clear after horrible struggles. — The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California, Gustave Aimard

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