Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The shelf of a mantelpiece, especially when movable and forming rather a part of the over-mantel than of the chimneypiece proper.
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- noun US A
mantel .
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Examples
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I turned away from them, put my foot on the fender, stuck my elbow on the plush-fringed mantelboard, and studied the photographs, pipes, and ash-trays that adorned it.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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I turned away from them, put my foot on the fender, stuck my elbow on the plush-fringed mantelboard, and studied the photographs, pipes, and ash-trays that adorned it.
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Then he came back to the fireplace, and leaned against the mantelboard.
The Giant's Robe F. Anstey 1895
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Then there was a mantelboard with maroon plush and wool fringe that did not match the plush; a dreary clock like a black marble tomb -- it was silent as the grave too, for it had long since forgotten how to tick.
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