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mantle-piece

mantle-piece is the archaic form of mantelpiece.

Meaning of mantelpiece

Noun

mantelpiece (plural mantelpieces)

  1. A shelf that is affixed to the wall above a fireplace.
    • The medium was leaning with her elbow on the mantel piece, austere and aloof.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

Forms of mantle-piece

pluralmantle-pieces

Questions about mantle-piece

What is mantle-piece the archaic form of?
Mantle-piece is the archaic form of mantelpiece.

Words near mantle-piece in the dictionary

  1. mantle leaf
  2. mantle piece
  3. mantle pieces
  4. mantle plume
  5. mantle plumes
  6. mantle-piece
  7. mantle-pieces
  8. mantle-tree
  9. mantle-trees
  10. mantled
  11. mantled ground squirrel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mantle-piece (page history and authors); mantelpiece (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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