mantlet

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From Middle English mauntelet, from Old French mantelet, diminutive of mantel (“mantle”). Doublet of mantelletta.

"I should say that they are intending to march forward covered by mantlets of wattles and hides. — At Agincourt, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
As the English approached a rain of arrows was poured into them, but covering themselves with their shields and with large mantlets formed of hurdles covered with hides they pressed forward to the dam. — In Freedom's Cause : A Story of Wallace and Bruce, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
What while the lamentation was at it highest, the good man, in whose house he had died, said to Salvestra, 'Harkye, put some mantlet or other on thy head and get thee to the church whither Girolamo hath been carried and mingle with the women and hearken to that which is discoursed of the matter; and I will do the like among the men, so we may hear if aught be said against us.' — The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio

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