chimney place

an open hearth.

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They followed her into a library, in which a wood fire was crackling merrily in the chimney-place.
On Your Mark!|Ralph Henry Barbour
Why do you not have a metallic curtain before your chimney-place?
Letters to an Unknown|Prosper Mrime
As she does so, Gaspard conceals himself behind the curtain of window at R. of chimney-place.
Harper's Young People, December 21, 1880|Various
Aunt Sarah said nothing at that time about her midnight rambling; nor about what she had locked up in the chimney-place cupboard.
The Corner House Girls' Odd Find|Grace Brooks Hill

They had a big fire in the chimney-place, and were smoking and making tea.
The Great War As I Saw It|Frederick George Scott