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mantelpiece

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mantelpiece
1. a shelf above a fireplace often forming part of the mantel
2. another word for mantel


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On either side of the yellow marble mantelpiece, in Louis XV.
When he came to the mantelpiece he shook his head and seemed distressed.
I saw that a faint streak of daylight was showing through the curtains of the windows, and that the clock on the mantelpiece pointed to close upon five o'clock.
 
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