Mantelet

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A short cloak formerly worn by knights.

2. A short cloak or mantle worn by women. A mantelet upon his shoulders hanging. Chaucer.

3. A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.