Mantling
In heraldry, mantling is drapery depicted tied to the helmet above the shield. It forms a backdrop for the shield.Mantling is blazoned mantled x, doubled [lined] y; the cloth has two sides, one of a heraldic colour (red, blue, green, black, or purple) and the other of a heraldic metal (white or yellow). (See heraldry for more on these tinctures.) The mantling is usually in the main colours of the shield, or else in colours that symbolize the entity bearing the arms. For example, the Coat of Arms of Canada is mantled white and red, or argent doubled gules.
Mantling represents a protective cloth covering worn by knights from their helmets to stave off the elements. Sometimes, mantling is drawn as an intact drape; other times it is shown tattered, as if in battle. This is usually the artist's discretion and done for decorative rather than symbolic reasons.
See also
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by old black mammies in white aprons and gayly colored
sheltered by protecting shrubs, happy lovers sat and
old gentlemen read by the hour, their noses in their
charm, outside the grass-line and the rickety wooden
splashed with cool shadows and stained with green
stopped his cart; and here, in winter, upon its broken
ceased for a moment his droning call.
On the shady side of the square, and half-hidden
belfry holding a bell that had not rung for years, and
around which travelled a single rusty hand. In its
a stately mansion with Corinthian columns.
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