mantelpiece

/ ˈmæntəlˌpiːs /

noun

1. Also called: mantel shelf.  chimneypiece. a shelf above a fireplace often forming part of the mantel

2. another word for mantel

Example Sentences

"I don't want it to be a doorstop or in the bottom drawer, I want it to be on the mantelpiece."

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The dead duck on the mantelpiece let out a single protesting quack, but the portrait of Edward Ashton remained unchanged.

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Others decorate mantelpieces, bookshelves and walls with their plastic builds, often to spouses’ chagrin.

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She's a Hollywood A-lister, with a mantelpiece groaning under the weight of awards.

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Luckily for him, his mantelpiece is looking pretty full after his 2021 release, It Takes Two, snagged a clutch of the games industry's biggest awards.

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Related Words

• counter 
• cupboard 
• ledge 
• rack