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mantling noun

  • (heraldry) The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms.
 dekkleed

mantle noun

  /ˈmæn.təl/
  • (geology) The layer between Earth's core and crust. [from 20th c.]
 mantel, aardmantel
  • 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.) [from 19th c.]
 gloeikous
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