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noun 
  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 from becoming a sort of anti-parachute which sought to lift her free of the pavement.
Etymology: From (term, manteauFrench, manteau, mantle). Compare (term, mantle).


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