a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes; a cloak
something that covers, envelops, or conceals
a role or persona that one adopts or takes over from somebody else
a fold or lobe in the body wall of snails, mussels, etc that lines the shell and contains shell-secreting glands
the soft external body wall that lines the hard outer covering of barnacles, sea squirts, and related animals
the feathers covering the back and wings of a bird, esp when different in colour from the rest of the plumage
a lacy hood or sheath treated with a solution of the chemical elements cerium and thorium that when placed over the flame of a gas or oil lamp increases the amount of light given off
the part of the earth that lies between the crust and the central core [Middle English mantel via Old French from Latin mantellum cloak: sense 3 with allusion to 2 Kings 2:13 ‘He [Elisha] took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him’]