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Franklin stove
noun
: a metal heating stove resembling an open fireplace but designed to be set out in a room
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Bracketing his interest in interplanetary communication, this impasse means everything to Chaplin; her expansive claims for the Franklin stove’s importance click into place.
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Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Later, a chef (Hazuki Kikuchi) bathes soba noodles in the water, Takumi throws the wood into a Franklin stove to heat his home and Hana creates a mental map of the forest based on these plants.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
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Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Later, a chef (Hazuki Kikuchi) bathes soba noodles in the water, Takumi throws the wood into a Franklin stove to heat his home and Hana creates a mental map of the forest based on these plants.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
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“Franklin stove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Franklin%20stove. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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