Noun

1. A cloak or gown, especially of a kind popular with women in the 17th and 18th centuries.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 915:

     Not to mention the need to keep her manteau from becoming a sort of anti-parachute which sought to lift her free of the pavement.

Noun

1. coat
2. mantle (garment worn by Orthodox bishops)
3. mantle