Associations to the word «Mantlepiece»

Wiktionary

MANTLEPIECE, noun. Alternative spelling of mantelpiece

Dictionary definition

MANTLEPIECE, 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