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Chimney corner

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Noun
  1. 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 and yeares, without thruſting them into publike ſervice and knowledge of men;[…]."

  2. 2
    a corner by a fireplace wordnet

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