† manˈteel Obs.
Forms: 5 manteill, (7–8 Dicts. mantile), 8 manteil, -teel(e.
[app. a. F. mantille, ad. Sp. mantilla: see mantilla.]
1. A soldier's cloak or mantle.
| c 1470 Henry Wallace xi. 242 A gret manteill about his hand can ta, And his gud suerd. [1656 Blount Glossogr., Mantile or Mantle, a kind of cloak which Souldiers in times past used in Winter.] |
2. Some kind of cape or mantle worn by ladies.
| 1733 Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. (1861) I. 424, I am sick of manteils, and I have two by me. 1752 Fielding Covent Gard. Jrnl. 9 May, Ladies..covered their lovely necks with a cloak; this, being routed by the enemy [the vulgar], was exchanged for the manteel. 1786 Burns Holy Fair ii, Twa had manteeles o' dolefu' black, But ane wi' lyart lining. |