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bishop's mantle

bishop's mantle noun: a tippet (shoulder protection), often with a collar and/or cape, of mail.

Noun

bishop's mantle (plural bishop's mantles)

  1. A tippet (shoulder protection), often with a collar and/or cape, of mail.
    • The second illustration shows a case devoted to the equipment of the "Landsknecht" soldiers, that famous body […] High up in the centre is a chain mail tippet or "Bishop's mantle," so frequently depicted by the engravers […]1925, Royal Ontario Museum. Division of Art and Archaeology, Bulletin, Issues 3-5; Issues 7-11, page 18
    • German 'Landsknecht ' or professional foot-soldier, wearing mail 'bishop's mantle', carrying a two-handed sword, and also another sword with typical S-shaped quillons; from a contemporary woodcut, time of Henry VIII […]1958, Austin Lane Poole, Medieval England, Clarendon: Oxford
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bishop, mantle.

Examples of bishop's mantle in a sentence

  • Right : Robert Taggert (Lars Holtzclaw) wears a "bishop's mantle" of mail around the shoulders.1997, Barbara Lane, Echoes from Medieval Halls: Past-Life Memories from the Middle Ages, Are Press, →ISBN:
  • I was wearing a chain mail bishop's mantle and carrying a short sword. […]2009, Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans, Renaissance Festivals: Merrying the Past and Present, McFarland, →ISBN, page 175:

Forms of bishop's mantle

pluralbishop's mantles

Questions about bishop's mantle

What does bishop's mantle mean?
Bishop's mantle means a tippet (shoulder protection), often with a collar and/or cape, of mail.
How do you use bishop's mantle in a sentence?
Right : Robert Taggert (Lars Holtzclaw) wears a "bishop's mantle" of mail around the shoulders.
What part of speech is bishop's mantle?
Bishop's mantle is a noun.
What is the plural of bishop's mantle?
The plural of bishop's mantle is bishop's mantles.

Words near bishop's mantle in the dictionary

  1. Bishop's Falls
  2. Bishop's Hull
  3. Bishop's Itchington
  4. bishop's length
  5. Bishop's Lynn
  6. bishop's mantle
  7. bishop's mantles
  8. bishop's nose
  9. Bishop's Nympton
  10. Bishop's Opening
  11. bishop's pawn

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