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- noun Plural form of
mantlepiece .
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Examples
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For among other accomplishments, she is the woman who first opened America's eyes to the fauxlero epidemic, and uncovered the existence of invisible mantlepieces in 1950's culture.
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Beautifully arranged on tables, high up on mantlepieces, illuminating corners or particular pictures.
The Endsleigh Salon 2006
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Beautifully arranged on tables, high up on mantlepieces, illuminating corners or particular pictures.
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Beautifully arranged on tables, high up on mantlepieces, illuminating corners or particular pictures.
The Endsleigh Salon 2006
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Dragons are everywhere you look these days; in The Never-Ending Story, in Chinese carnivals, on the mantlepieces of all kinds of creepy friendless people.
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The red berries were just as abundant on the holly, and he and Maggie had dressed all the windows and mantlepieces and picture-frames on Christmas eve with as much taste as ever, wedding the thick-set scarlet clusters with branches of the black-berried ivy.
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Señor Zurro was in his room, reading a newspaper by the light of a large candle; the place was a regular storehouse, cluttered with old secretaries, dilapidated chests, mantlepieces, clocks and sundry other items.
The Quest P��o Baroja 1914
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Stone walls and floor, tombstone mantlepieces (mixed Gothic), really good Persian rugs, and the very most carved, brand new gilt Louis
Elizabeth Visits America Elinor Glyn 1903
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Bedford Park in a red-brick house with several wood mantlepieces copied from marble mantlepieces by the brothers Adam, a balcony, and a little garden shadowed by a great horse-chestnut tree.
Four Years 1897
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He is employed by a large house to make designs for mantlepieces, and marble tables, and tombs; and he has -- listen!
A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878
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