Mantelets is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 440 anagrams from letters in mantelets (aeelmnstt).
1350-1400; Middle English Middle French; see mantle, -et
But the special point for which we give the woodcut here, is to illustrate the use of the mantelet.
It is called the mantelet echarpe, or scarf mantelet; and it combines, as its name implies, the effect of the scarf and mantelet.
It requires great dexterity in cutting out the mantelet to give a graceful appearance to this innovation.
The most interesting example which we have met of the employment of the pavis and mantelet, is in a picture in the Harl.
This mantelet, as we afterwards learned, gave rise to a somewhat singular occurrence.
All this time Denys was behind his mantelet with another arbalestrier, protecting the workmen and making some excellent shots.
But the archers of the besiegers sought to put themselves on more equal terms with their opponents by using the pavis or mantelet.
I wore the new bonnet and mantelet to church, to-day:—frightened the sexton, made the minister squint, and the congregation stare.
He remembereth his worthies: They stumble in their march; They make haste to the wall thereof, And the mantelet is prepared.
On the memorable occasion of which I speak I was habited in a crimson satin dress, with a sky-blue Arabian mantelet.
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