Mantle Explained

A mantle is a piece of clothing, a type of cloak. Several other meanings are derived from that.

Mantle may refer to:

• Mantle (clothing), a cloak-like garment worn mainly by women as fashionable outerwear
  • Mantle (vesture), an Eastern Orthodox vesture worn by monastics and higher clergy
  • Mantle (royal garment), a garment worn by monarchs and princes as a symbol of authority
  • Mantle (heraldry), a heraldic element
• Mantle (geology), a layer in the interior of a planet
  • The Earth's mantle
• Mantle (surname)
• Mantle, a feature of bird anatomy
• Mantle (climbing), the external covering of a climbing rope.
• Mantle, a black and white dog coat colour, especially in Great Danes
• Mantle (mollusc), a layer of tissue in molluscs which secretes the shell
• Fireplace mantle or mantel, the hood over the grate of a fire
• Gas mantle, a device for generating bright white light when heated by a flame
• Mantle Site, in Whitchurch-Stouffville, near Toronto
• Mantle (API), a low-level GPU API developed by AMD

Entertainment

• The Mantle, an album by Agalloch
• Greenmantle, a novel by John Buchan

See also

• Mantel (disambiguation)
• Mantell (disambiguation)
• Mantling, heraldry drapery that is tied to the helmet above the shield