Guernsey.
"MANTEL, _n. s._ (_mantel_, old French, or rather the German word
_mantel_, 'Germanis _mantel_ non pallium modo significat, sed etiam id
omne quod aliud circumdat: hinc murus arcis, atque structura quæ focum
invertit, _mantel_ ipsis dicitur.' V. Ducange in v. Mantum). Work
raised before a chimney to conceal it, whence the name, which
originally signifies a cloak."--Todd's _Johnson_.
Richardson gives the two following quotations from Wotton:
From them (Italians) we may better learn, both how to raise fair
_mantles_ within the rooms, and how to disguise gracefully the shafts
of chimneys abroad (as they use) in sundry forms."--_Reliquiæ
Wottonianæ_, p. 37.
"The Italians apply it (plastick) to the _mantling_ of chimneys with
great figures, a cheap piece of magnificence."--Id. p. 63.