A mantle is a piece of clothing, a type of

cloak A cloak is a type of loose garment worn over clothing, mostly but not always as outerwear for outdoor wear, which serves the same purpose as an overcoat and protects the wearer from the weather. It may form part of a uniform. People in many d ...

. Several other meanings are derived from that. Mantle may refer to: *

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, a cloak-like garment worn mainly by women as fashionable outerwear **

Mantle (vesture) A mantle (; ) is an ecclesiastical garment in the form of a very full cape that extends to the floor, joined at the neck, that is worn over the outer garments. Especially in the case of Elijah, it was likely a tallit, a Hebrew garment that hou ...

, an Eastern Orthodox vesture worn by monastics and higher clergy **

Mantle (royal garment) A royal mantle, or more simply a Mantle, is a garment normally worn by emperors, kings or queens as a symbol of authority. When worn at a coronation, such mantles may be referred to as coronation mantles. Many princes also wear such a mantle. ...

, a garment worn by monarchs and princes as a symbol of authority ** Mantle (heraldry), a heraldic element *

Mantle (geology) A mantle is a layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a Planetary core, core and above by a Crust (geology), crust. Mantles are made of Rock (geology), rock or Volatile (astrogeology), ices, and are generally the largest and most massive l ...

, a layer in the interior of a planet ** The

Earth's mantle Earth's mantle is a layer of silicate mineral, silicate rock between the Earth's crust, crust and the Earth's outer core, outer core. It has a mass of and makes up 67% of the mass of Earth. It has a thickness of making up about 46% of Earth's ...

* Mantle (surname) *Mantle, a feature of

bird anatomy Bird anatomy, or the physiological structure of birds' bodies, shows many unique adaptations, mostly aiding flight. Birds have a light skeletal system and light but powerful musculature which, along with circulatory and respiratory systems capa ...

* Mantle (climbing), the external covering of a climbing rope. *Mantle, a black and white dog coat colour, especially in

Great Danes The Great Dane is a German breed of large mastiff-sighthound, which descends from hunting dogs of the Middle Ages used to hunt bears, wild boar, and deer. They were also used as guardian dogs of German nobility. It is one of the two largest d ...

Mantle (mollusc) The mantle (also known by the Latin language, Latin word pallium meaning mantle, robe or cloak, adjective pallial) is a significant part of the anatomy of molluscs: it is the dorsum (biology), dorsal body wall which covers the visceral mass and ...

, a layer of tissue in molluscs which secretes the shell *

Fireplace mantle The fireplace mantel or mantelpiece, also known as a chimneypiece, originated in medieval times as a hood that projected over a fire grate to catch the smoke. The term has evolved to include the decorative framework around the fireplace, and ...

or mantel, the hood over the grate of a fire *

Gas mantle A Coleman white gas lantern mantle glowing at full brightness An incandescent gas mantle, gas mantle or Welsbach mantle is a device for generating bright white light when heated by a flame. The name refers to its original heat source in gas li ...

, a device for generating bright white light when heated by a flame *

Mantle Site The "Jean-Baptiste Lainé" or Mantle Site in the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville, north-east of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the largest and most complex ancestral Wendat-Huron village to be excavated to date in the Lower Great Lakes region. Th ...

, in Whitchurch-Stouffville, near Toronto *

Mantle (API) Mantle was a low-overhead rendering API targeted at 3D video games. AMD originally developed Mantle in cooperation with EA DICE, DICE, starting in 2013. Mantle was designed as an alternative to Direct3D and OpenGL, primarily for use on personal ...

, a low-level GPU API developed by AMD

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The Mantle ''The Mantle'' is the second studio album by American extreme metal band Agalloch. The album was released on August 13, 2002, by The End Records. Production Cinema "really emerged as a reference point for how we arranged our music n ''The Mant ...

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Greenmantle ''Greenmantle'' is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character Richard Hannay. It was first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being ...

'', a novel by John Buchan

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