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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
mantlet
    n 1: portable bulletproof shelter [syn: mantelet, mantlet]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mantelet \Man"tel*et\, n. [F., dim. of manteau, OF. mantel. See
   Mantle.]
   1.
      (a) A short cloak formerly worn by knights.
      (b) A short cloak or mantle worn by women.
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                A mantelet upon his shoulders hanging.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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   2. (Fort.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal,
      which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or
      riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at
      embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mantlet \Man"tlet\, n.
   See Mantelet.
   [1913 Webster]
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