ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Chimney-corner

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Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Chimney-corner is a noun meaning Archaic form of chimney corner.

Meaning

Archaic form of chimney corner.

Example Sentences

The Library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sybil—if Sybil she were, was seated snugly enough in an easy chair at the chimney-corner.
[…] it was Angel Clare’s custom to sit in the yawning chimney-corner during the meal, his cup-and-saucer and plate being placed on a hinged flap at his elbow.
And now the Concern which Partridge felt at being obliged to quit a warm Chimney-corner, and a Cup of excellent Liquor, was ſomewhat compenſated by hearing that he was to proceed no farther on Foot; […]
Scarcely any of the items in the above-drawn parallel occurred to Phœbe, whose country birth and residence, in truth, had left her pitifully ignorant of most of the family traditions, which lingered, like cobwebs and incrustations of smoke, about the rooms and chimney-corners of the House of the Seven Gables.

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