mantle 2
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Searchable Lemmata: mantelen (ME), mantle (MdE).
Alternate Forms: imantlet, mantel, manteled, mantelle, mantelled, mantlid.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(vb.)
Utilisation;
to clothe or to dress a person or part of the body; to clothe in a mantle or similar garment. Occasionally as past participle (i)manteled 'covered, dressed'. Also in extended figurative senses: to cover or hide, to surround, to conceal or make secret, etc.(circa 1225 still in current use)
2. This mantelle with whiche j am arayed ... is furred with fox skynnes ... was maad and worpen of the wulle of white sheep ... for to mantelle with my defautes and consele myne vnthriftes ... this mantelle hath mantelled me and seith to the folk that j am fair ... Al be it j be mantelled and wel hatted [F enchapee]
[MED Pilgr.LM ((Cmb Ff.5.30) 121) circa 1450]
Sex: N/A Ceremonial: No
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Etymological Evidence:
Definite, verbal derivation from the noun mantle (see mantle 1). Old (continental) French manteler 'to cover' (especially in the sense of providing shelter, defence, fortification) is attested from the thirteenth century, but is not given in AND; thus the present verb may be a Middle English coining direct from the noun. See also entry at mantellare 'to make up into mantles', a coining from Latin mantellum; the present verb is attested with such a sense in Older Scots and Early Modern English, but only in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (see OED mantle v.).
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