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单词 mantle-wall
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mantle-walln.

Forms: see mantle n. and wall n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mantle n., wall n.1
Etymology: < mantle n. + wall n.1 Compare Middle French (Picardy) mantel (14th cent. in this sense), Middle French manteau (c1400 in this sense).
Fortification. Scottish. Obsolete.
A rampart, a parapet; (more widely) any outer wall. Also figurative.Cf. mantlet wall n. at mantlet n. Compounds.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun]
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a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. iii. 159 Quhat meyn thai be this myddill mantill wall?
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. 24 The twinkling stremowris of the orient..Bet doun the skyis clowdy mantill wall.
1574 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1876) I. 12 The said Thomas to big wp the pece mantale wall wpone the said maister Dauidis ground.
1584 in C. S. Romanes Sel. Rec. Regality of Melrose (1917) III. 317 The yard callit the baikhous yeard lyand within the mantill wall of the said abbay.
1609 in J. Maidment Chron. Perth (1831) 12 The great wind blew down the stanes of the mantil wall of the kirk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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