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mantling
[ mant-ling ]
noun
, Heraldry.
- a decorative piece of cloth represented as hanging from a torse so as to cover the sides and rear of a helmet and often so as to frame the escutcheon below.
mantling
/ ˈmæntlɪŋ /
noun
- heraldry the drapery or scrollwork around a shield
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mantling1
C16: from mantle
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Example Sentences
As the operation proceeded, a snow-white head of milky foam rose mantling in the can.
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She raised herself on her pillow, the long hair mantling her shoulders and aureoling the death-like face.
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Her mantling color, her heaving bosom, and the fond, wistful lights in her dark eyes told how very happy she was.
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Surely no boy ever played the fool as Bob Ewart used to play it, no boy had a readier knack of mantling the world with wonder.
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The helmets were almost hidden by the large crests and the scarlet mantling, and the metal exposed was generally gilt.
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