mantelpiece
Britishnoun
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Also called: mantel shelf. chimneypiece. a shelf above a fireplace often forming part of the mantel
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another word for mantel
Example Sentences
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Their work had an unlikely brush with literary fame: during a visit in 1873, Mark Twain was so taken with the dining‑room mantelpiece at Ayton Castle that he purchased it.
From BBC
"I don't want it to be a doorstop or in the bottom drawer, I want it to be on the mantelpiece."
From BBC
The dead duck on the mantelpiece let out a single protesting quack, but the portrait of Edward Ashton remained unchanged.
From Literature
Others decorate mantelpieces, bookshelves and walls with their plastic builds, often to spouses’ chagrin.
She's a Hollywood A-lister, with a mantelpiece groaning under the weight of awards.
From BBC
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