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chimney-piece

chimney-piece is the alternative form of chimneypiece.

Meaning of chimneypiece

Noun

chimneypiece (plural chimneypieces)

  1. A mantelpiece.
    • Partridge Fine Art of London has a carved and gilded rococo chimneypiece festooned with Ho-Ho birds, garlands of flowers, fruit and female masks.2007 February 9, Wendy Moonan, “Relics of the 19th Century, in a Sentimental Mood”, in New York Times

Forms of chimney-piece

pluralchimney-pieces

Questions about chimney-piece

What is chimney-piece the alternative form of?
Chimney-piece is the alternative form of chimneypiece.

Words near chimney-piece in the dictionary

  1. chimney-corners
  2. chimney-duty
  3. chimney-glass
  4. chimney-glasses
  5. chimney-money
  6. chimney-piece
  7. chimney-pieces
  8. chimney-pot hat
  9. chimney-pot hats
  10. chimney-sweep
  11. chimney-sweeper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chimney-piece (page history and authors); chimneypiece (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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