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chimneypiece
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tags: [architecture]
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Definition:a fireplace mantel
painting: by Childe Hassam (1912) https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/the-fireplace/
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Certain wintry branches of candles on the high chimney-piece faintly lighted the chamber; or it would be more expressive to say, faintly troubled its darkness.
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she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds,
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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“That is one of my paintings over the chimney-piece.”
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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He even already was admiring two crossed foils over his chimney-piece, with a death's head on the guitar above them.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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