Mantelet

Aunt Pitty had made her a pretty green mantelet which hid her figure and a green pancake hat which matched her eyes, and she always wore these becoming garments on her business calls. ❋ Margaret Mitchell (1996)

Then, approaching the mantelet -- "Much pleasure, Monseigneur," said he. ❋ Various (N/A)

_ -- Bonnet of purple velvet with black feather; full mantelet of black velvet, trimmed with lace and buttons; dress of dark valencias, very full, and plain. ❋ Various (N/A)

It requires great dexterity in cutting out the mantelet to give a graceful appearance to this innovation. ❋ Various (N/A)

Velvet mantelet, with arabesque in silk braiding, a quarter of an inch wide, and satin stitch, slightly fitting to the waist; wide sleeves, and entirely embroidered. ❋ Various (N/A)

Compare to that yellow-nailed, swart bear-skin, the coat-armour made with cloth of Tars, the mantelet thick-sown with rubies; for the locks like the raven's plumage, the curls like Apollo's tresses. ❋ Various (N/A)

I wore the new bonnet and mantelet to church to-day: – frightened the sexton, made the minister squint, and the congregation stare. ❋ Maud Howe Elliott (1915)

Oh, what headdresses! what silks! what a bonnet, what a mantelet! ❋ Maud Howe Elliott (1915)

Let us at least go back, fill up once more, and raise a mantelet against the bolts, for they have an arbalist which shoots both straight and hard. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)

She had set her heart on a silk mantelet marked thirteen francs, which she had seen in a shopwindow. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

These ended by earning him the esteem of an unseen archer, who every now and then sent a winged compliment quivering into his mantelet. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

Sometimes Denys would put a piece of bread on the top of his mantelet, and then the archer would hang something of the kind out by a string; or the order of invitation would be reversed. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

Denys was behind his mantelet with another arbalestrier, protecting the workmen and making some excellent shots. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

Denys; he ran out from his mantelet, hoping to escape notice in the confusion, and levelling his crossbow missed the knight clean, but sent his bolt into the brain of the pikeman, and the tall knight fell heavily from the wall, lance and all. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

In the afternoon, as Simon was running back to his mantelet from a palisade where he had been shooting at the besieged, Denys, peeping through his slit, saw the poor fellow suddenly stare and hold out his arms, then roll on his face, and a feathered arrow protruded from his back. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)