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Webster 1913 Edition


Fireplace

Fire′placeˊ

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Noun.
The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; – usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fireplace

FI'REPLACE

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Noun.
The part of a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth.

Definition 2024


fireplace

fireplace

English

Noun

fireplace (plural fireplaces)

  1. An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess:
      Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

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