chimney breast

noun

British

: a part of a wall that extends out into a room to cover a chimney

Examples of chimney breast in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

My own challenges included a window that sat unusually low on the wall, strange proportions thanks to a chimney breast jutting into an already narrow room, and complete indecision over where everything should go. — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2026

Creative Tonic Design The colors of the geometric floor tiles in this lounge by Creative Tonic match those in the marbled niches on either side of the chimney breast. — Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 19 Apr. 2026

The chimney breast was clad in large églomisé glass panels backed with a gradation of copper, brass, and silver leaf. — Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 15 Aug. 2023

Rhymes for chimney breast

• acquiesced
• coalesced
• dispossessed
• manifest
• overdressed
• overstressed
• prepossessed
• reassessed
• reinvest
• repossessed
• unaddressed
• uncompressed