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Mantle vs Pelisse - What's the difference?

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Mantle is a related term of pelisse.


As a proper noun mantle

is .

As a noun pelisse is

a fur-lined or fur robe or gown, especially as part of a uniform.

mantle

English

(wikipedia mantle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
  • (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
    • At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
    The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
  • (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
  • * (rfdate) (Shakespeare) (King Lear)
    • the green mantle of the standing pool
  • (zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
  • * 1990 , Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals , page 71 (where there is an illustration):
    • Before copulation in Loligo'', the male swims beside and slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle'''. He then reaches into his ' mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his penis.
  • (zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
  • The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp.
  • The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
    • (Raymond)
  • A penstock for a water wheel.
  • (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
  • (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
  • A fireplace shelf;
  • (heraldry) A mantling.

    • Derived terms

    * assume the mantle * gas mantle * mantlepiece * mantle-tree * upper mantle

    Verb

    (mantl)
  • To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To become covered or concealed.
  • (of face, cheeks) To flush.
  • * 1913 ,
    • The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.

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    pelisse

    English

    (wikipedia pelisse)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A fur-lined or fur robe or gown, especially as part of a uniform.
  • (historical) A silk gown formerly worn by women, often lined or trimmed with fur.
  • *1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
  • *:Mrs. Wix, after Miss Overmore's last demonstration, addressed herself wholly to the little girl [...], drawing from the pocket of her dingy old pelisse a small flat parcel [...].
  • An overgarment worn by Victorian children when outside.
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