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mantel shelf

mantel shelf is the alternative form of mantelshelf.

Meaning of mantelshelf

Noun

mantelshelf (plural mantelshelves)

  1. A shelf above a fireplace.
    • Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  2. Synonym of mantel (“a type of maneuver to surmount a ledge”).
    Synonyms:
    mantel

Forms of mantel shelf

pluralmantel shelfs

Questions about mantel shelf

What is mantel shelf the alternative form of?
Mantel shelf is the alternative form of mantelshelf.

Words near mantel shelf in the dictionary

  1. mantegars
  2. Mantegnesque
  3. mantel
  4. mantel piece
  5. mantel pieces
  6. mantel shelf
  7. mantel-piece
  8. mantel-pieces
  9. mantelboard
  10. mantelboards
  11. manteled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mantel shelf (page history and authors); mantelshelf (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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