mantel
/ˈmæn.təl/ noun C2- The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney.
- A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body.
Plural mantels
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If a home is happy it cannot fit too close—let the dresser collapse and become a billiard table; let the mantel turn to a rowing machine, the escritoire to a spare bedchamber, the washstand to an upright piano; let the four walls come together, if they will, so you and your Delia are between.
To the girls, who could not listen to their cousin, and who had nothing to do but to wish for an instrument, and examine their own indifferent imitations of china on the mantel-piece, the interval of waiting appeared very long.
Darcy, who was leaning against the mantel-piece with his eyes fixed on her face, seemed to catch her words with no less resentment than surprise.
Wickham, suspended, amongst several other miniatures, over the mantel-piece.
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