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Definition of mantelpiece
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The cabinet card was made to be held, cherished, or displayed on the mantelpiece.
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There are 34 barristers at 4 Stone, including Jonathan Crow, whose office features a stuffed crow on the mantelpiece.
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Or a mantelpiece worth as much as $10,000, or an antique oak door worth perhaps $600.
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But there is a broader market for such relatively commonplace items as antique tile floors, wood paneling, mantelpieces and chimneys, and sometimes even for staircases.
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And stagehands have pulled an audience member onstage to hold up a mantelpiece that keeps falling off the set.
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First Known Use of mantelpiece
1660
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: the shelf above a fireplace and the decorative pieces on the sides of the fireplace
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