Middle English Dictionary Entry
mauntelet n.
Entry Info
| Forms | mauntelet n. Also mauntolet, mantelet, mantilet. |
| Etymology | OF mantelet |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A short cloak or cape; (b) a camail, mail tippet; (c) a cloth covering for a horse, caparison.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2163 : The kyng of Inde..Cam ridynge..A mantelet [vr. mantel] vpon his shulder hangynge, Bret ful of rubies rede as fyr sparklynge.
- (1440) Will York in Sur.Soc.3076 : Lego..Johannæ Hawnserd..unam mantilet, cum quatuor barbys et duobus forhedes..unum mantilett.
b
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3632 : Ane helme betyn, Mengede with a mawntelet of maylys of siluer, Compaste with a coronall.
c
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)1198 : Graythe vs horse and my gere; Loke..Þat þay be trapped in gete, Bathe telerer and mantelete [vr. mauntolet], Ryghte of a fyne veluete.