manteau

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From French manteau (“‘mantle’”). Compare mantle.

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  • IPA: /ˈmæntəʊ/

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Singular
manteau

Plural
manteaus

manteau (plural manteaus)

  1. A cloak or gown, especially of a kind popular with women in the 17th and 18th centuries.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 915:
      Not to mention the need to keep her manteau from becoming a sort of anti-parachute which sought to lift her free of the pavement.

[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

Latin mantellum, diminutive of mantum.

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[edit] Noun

manteau m. (plural manteaux)

  1. coat
  2. mantle (garment worn by Orthodox bishops)
  3. (geology) mantle

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