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chimney-corner

chimney-corner is the archaic form of chimney corner.

Meaning of chimney corner

Noun

chimney corner (plural chimney corners)

  1. The side of an open fireplace or hearth in a home, traditionally thought of as a place for the old or unwell; an inglenook.
    • It is meere injuſtice to ſee an old, crazed, ſinnowe-ſhronken, and nigh-dead father ſitting alone in a chimnie-corner, to enjoy ſo many goods as would ſuffice for the preferment and entertainment of many children, and in the meane while, for want of meanes, to ſuffer them to looſe their beſt daies...1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the affection of fathers to their children”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 224

Forms of chimney-corner

pluralchimney-corners

Questions about chimney-corner

What is chimney-corner the archaic form of?
Chimney-corner is the archaic form of chimney corner.

Words near chimney-corner in the dictionary

  1. chimney swift
  2. chimney swifts
  3. chimney's afire
  4. chimney-breast
  5. chimney-breasts
  6. chimney-corner
  7. chimney-corners
  8. chimney-duty
  9. chimney-glass
  10. chimney-glasses
  11. chimney-money

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chimney-corner (page history and authors); chimney corner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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