mantlepiece
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mantlepiece
Example Sentences
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Was he supposed to be betrothed to him forever, and be a mantlepiece for folk music until his death?
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
“Everyone has been so kind and nice,” she added, describing how one couple came over and said “Hey, we have Luther Price’s mantlepiece, do you want it?”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
"Perhaps it was the setting - the crammed bookshelves, the family photo, the teddy bear on the mantlepiece - or the heartfelt, personal delivery - but it felt intimate."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2020
Trinkets recur, from seashells on a mantlepiece to images of the countryside, as do snippets of old footage, like the scene in which three Rees-Moggs from a previous generation step into a fancy open-top car.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2019
I got up and took Father’s bayonet down from the wall over the mantlepiece.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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