mantle
noun
a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape.
Example Sentences
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To my knowledge, Carney’s creator is neither crook nor salesman, but Whitehead can lay claim to those other two mantles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
A full generation of White House advisers decided that image was static and inert, that a president looks more dynamic if he’s standing, with long halls or mantles behind him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
“Uranus and Neptune have disordered magnetic fields because they produce these fields in a thin water-rich layer in their mantles while our Earth generates its magnetic field in the core,” Militzer said.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2024
Unlike most animals, whose eyes feature retinas that send images to the brain, scallops have mantles covered with hundreds of tiny blue dots, each of which contains a curved mirror at its back.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2023
Then they wrapped them in warm purple mantles over fine tunics, and conducted them to the banquet hall.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
