Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ornamental facing around a fireplace.
- noun The protruding shelf over a fireplace.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 1. A cloak. See
mantle (the present spelling in this sense). - noun In architecture, all the work or facing around a fireplace, resting against the chimney, and usually projecting and more or less ornamental.
- noun In a restricted sense, a mantel-shelf.
- noun In geometry, lateral surface: as, the mantel of a frustum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports. The shelf is called also a
mantelpiece ormantlepiece .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
shelf above afireplace which may be also a structural support for themasonry of thechimney
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The bookshelves are packed with stuffed animals and books, and the mantel is lined with photographs of the children who live here.
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Mantel: The fireplace mantel is a very prominent location for displaying your village, as long as your collection is not too extensive and would force the overcrowding of your favorite pieces in to what can be a narrow and overall restricted space.
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The bookshelves are packed with stuffed animals and books, and the mantel is lined with photographs of the children who live here.
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The border of the Virgin's mantel is carved to resemble brocade and painted gold, while the inside has been painted red.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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A Gold Glove on his mantel is proof he can field as well as hit.
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The exquisite white marble mantel is Italian, not French, of the time of Louis XVI.
The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood
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Prominently placed on the mantel were his Emmy awards along with his favorite photographs of our children.
Candy Spelling: Onward & Upward: Moving on From the Manor Candy Spelling 2011
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Prominently placed on the mantel were his Emmy awards along with his favorite photographs of our children.
Candy Spelling: Onward & Upward: Moving on From the Manor Candy Spelling 2011
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Prominently placed on the mantel were his Emmy awards along with his favorite photographs of our children.
Candy Spelling: Onward & Upward: Moving on From the Manor Candy Spelling 2011
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In the centre of the mantel was a stuffed bird-of-paradise, while about the room were scattered gorgeous shells from the southern seas, delicate sprays of coral sprouting from barnacled pi-pi shells and cased in glass, assegais from South Africa, stone axes from New Guinea, huge
SAMUEL 2010
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