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mantled

mantled \man"tled\ adj. Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.

Syn: cloaked, clothed, draped, wrapped.

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mantled

vb. (en-past of: mantle)

WordNet
mantled

adj. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks" [syn: cloaked, clothed, draped, wrapped]

Usage examples of "mantled".

To the west rose the forbidding stone ramparts of the Skyshiels, sliced by ravines of weather-scabbed rock, and mantled in glaze ice and fir.

In a crook tucked amid the steep-sided foothills, beneath evergreens mantled like ermine-cloaked matrons, the Mad Prophet dropped his reins and dismounted.

He carried a bow, and tinder, and sharp steel, small precautions that counted in a Skyshiel gale, when cloud and relentless snowfall mantled the high peaks, and strength and experience lent no guarantee in the brute fight to maintain survival.

Around him, the night was a wind-tossed maelstrom, stars and moon mantled under the cloud of another westbound storm front.

He glanced aside, nodded in salute to the watching presence of a golden eagle, perched in mantled majesty on a broken shaft of dead fir.

A spike jabbed above mantled shoulders of stone, the peak ruled the ridded edge of the horizon, its implacable tip slicing the clouds like knapped flint.

She had her personal retinue and her honor guards all mantled in stark black.

Pain mantled him under a suffocating blanket, until the pressed weight of his suffering drilled his skull like a sieve and scattered his thoughts like spilled water.

A wool blanket mantled his throbbing shoulder, soaked in the heat thrown off by a nearby campfire.

Her stilled quiet stayed absolute, the linen mantled over her as freezing white as the shimmer off a distant ice field.

Her shoulders were mantled in the coarse cloak of a Vastmark shepherd.

No objection arose as he retained the coverlet, its masking warmth mantled over bare shoulders, the heaped folds at the hem draping the scars that disfigured his ankles.

Three richly mantled men stood near the center of the market, arguing heatedly.

A bright lance was brought, and the mantled lord hefted it, testing its balance as he turned toward Bevan.

The mantled lord had lost face in the confrontation, for such a chieftain is ever as much at the command of his warriors as they are at his.