mantles

• blankets
• blinds
• bosoms
• bowers
• burnooses
• burnouses
• camouflages
• capelets
• capes
• capotes
• capuchins
• circles
• circumfuses
• cloaks
• cocoons
• concealers
• copes
• cover-ups
• coverings
• covers
• covertures
• cowls
• curtains
• disguises
• dominoes
• dominos
• drapes
• embeds
• embosoms
• embowers
• embraces
• encases
• encircles
• encloses
• encompasses
• enfolds
• enlaces
• enshrouds
• enswathes
• envelops
• enwinds
• enwraps
• facades
• faces
• fig leafs
• fig leaves
• frocks
• glosses
• hoods
• imbeds
• incloses
• invests
• involves
• josephs
• laps
• mantas
• manteaus
• mantelets
• mantillas
• masks
• muffles
• overlays
• overspreads
• palatines
• palls
• pelerines
• pelisses
• penumbrae
• penumbras
• ponchos
• potemkin villages
• robes
• roquelaures
• sarapes
• screens
• serapes
• shawls
• shields
• shrouds
• stoles
• swaddles
• swathes
• tippets
• trojan horses
• varnishes
• veils
• veneers
• wraps

• bares
• denudes
• exposes
• strips

• noun
  1. The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney.
  2. A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf.
  3. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.).
  4. A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
  5. Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
  6. The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
  7. The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
  8. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
  9. A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.).
  10. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
  11. A penstock for a water wheel.
  12. The cerebral cortex.
  13. The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
  14. A mantling.

• The volcanoes rise from deep within the Earth's mantles.
• She designs medieval-style mantles for historical reenactments.
• The ceremony included the donning of royal mantles by the new rulers.
• The actors wore dramatic mantles to enhance their stage presence.
• He studies how different planetary mantles affect tectonic activity.

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