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plural mantlets
A short sleeveless cloak or cape. examples
(military, now historical) A portable screen or other covering, especially as used to protect the approach of soldiers engaged in a siege. quotations
Already their archers were stealing forward, pushing their rolling mantlets.
2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam, published 2011, page 947
(Christianity, chiefly Catholicism) A mantelletta. examples