Associations to the word «Mantelpiece»

Wiktionary

MANTELPIECE, noun. A shelf that is affixed to the wall above a fireplace.

Dictionary definition

MANTELPIECE, noun. Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope