mantlet

• mantelet

Middle English, from Old French mantelet, diminutive of mantel (“mantle”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæntlət/

mantlet (plural mantlets)

1. A short sleeveless cloak or cape.
2. (military, now historical) A portable screen or other covering, especially as used to protect the approach of soldiers engaged in a siege.
   • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 947:

     Already their archers were stealing forward, pushing their rolling mantlets.

3. (Christianity, chiefly Catholicism) A mantelletta.

• gun mantlet