Chimney-piece
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chimney-piece is a noun meaning Alternative form of chimneypiece.
Meaning
Alternative form of chimneypiece.
Example Sentences
"Crabtree's become a—a womanthrope," said Tommers. "No—a misowench. There's not been a fresh photo of ankles on his chimney-piece for months."
[…] and the chastest women thought it no shame for their pictures to be exposed in every stationer's shop or to decorate the chimney-piece of a platonic counter-jumper.
As you say, we passengers are to be taxed to pay all these fineries. I have often seen a good sideboard, or a marble chimney-piece, though not actually put in the bill, inflame a reckoning confoundedly.
The chimney-piece was of party-coloured marble, covered with figures, some of whose faces were beautiful, but generally running off into those grotesque combinations which characterised the peculiar taste of their time.
Word Forms
- chimney-pieces
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include chimneypiece, chimneystack, chimney, chimney corner, mantlepiece, mantelpiece.
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