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chimney-corner
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synonyms: inglenook ???
tags: [architecture]
► definition
Definition:a cozy recess next to the fireplace that was a popular place to warm up.
photo: By Jongleur100, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5164155
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And George and Tom moved to a comfortable seat in the chimney-corner,
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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How long since she had been with him, sitting on the footstool in the chimney-corner, where she used to burn the end of a bit of wood in the great flame of the sea-sedges!Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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she has taken a chair in the chimney-corner
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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I raised the latch of the door and peeped in at him opposite to it, sitting in the chimney corner.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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