Meanings
plural mantlepieces
- alternativeAlternative spelling of mantelpiece.
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The house was handsome and handsomely fitted up, and the young ladies were immediately put in possession of a very comfortable apartment. It had formerly been Charlotte’s, and over the mantlepiece still hung a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent seven years at a great school in town to some effect.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 54
Synonyms & antonyms
nounshelf that projects from wall above fireplace
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mantlepiece. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mantlepiece
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