reticella — meaning in English
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English meaning
- mantle verb To cover, cloak, or conceal something.
Senses
reticella is used for these senses in English:
- mantle A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.) [from 19th c.]
mantle — full definition
- verb To cover, cloak, or conceal something.
- noun The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core.
- noun A position or responsibility passed on to someone, or a loose cloak.