mantelet

[ man-tl-et, mant-lit ]

/ ˈmæn tlˌɛt, ˈmænt lɪt /

a short mantle.

Also mantlet. Military.

Origin of mantelet

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French; see mantle, -et

He remembereth his worthies: They stumble in their march; They make haste to the wall thereof, And the mantelet is prepared.

Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature |Various
This mantelet, as we afterwards learned, gave rise to a somewhat singular occurrence.

Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II. |Catherine II, Empress of Russia
The most interesting example which we have met of the employment of the pavis and mantelet, is in a picture in the Harl.

Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages |Edward Lewes Cutts
But the archers of the besiegers sought to put themselves on more equal terms with their opponents by using the pavis or mantelet.

Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages |Edward Lewes Cutts

It is called the mantelet echarpe, or scarf mantelet; and it combines, as its name implies, the effect of the scarf and mantelet.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V |Various

mantelet

/ (ˈmæntəˌlɛt) /

a woman's short mantle, often lace-trimmed, worn in the mid-19th century

a portable bulletproof screen or shelter

C14: from Old French, diminutive of mantel mantle