mantlepiece

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mantlepiece (plural mantlepieces)

  1. Alternative spelling of mantelpiece
    • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Sense and Sensibility [], volume II, London: [] C[harles] Roworth, [], and published by T[homas] Egerton, [], →OCLC, page 54:
      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.

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