mantelpiece betydelse and definition

Exempel på mantelpiece

• Doors were being added and in one house a mantelpiece was fashioned as an adornment.

• The actor image lives on in quotidian domestic contexts: on the mantelpiece, in albums or dusty shoeboxes, treasured in family papers or dispatched to junk shops.

• He has an enormous stomach and a bloated appearance, and he is resting his feet on the mantelpiece.

• It will not be put away on the mantelpiece.

• Often mantelpieces and panelling, for instance, which are tenants' fixtures, are valuable.

• What is the point of having teeth and keeping them on the mantelpiece?

• Is she going to frame the order and hang it over the mantelpiece?

• I hope that that is engraved over all the mantelpieces concerned.