Fire-place

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic form of fireplace. alt-of, archaic

    "The first half hour was spent in piling up the fire, lest she should suffer from the change of room; and she removed at his desire to the other side of the fire-place, that she might be farther from the door."

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ancestral hallschimneychimney cornerfamily homesteadfenderfire screen

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"The Yule Log has from time immemorial been haled to the open fire-place on Christmas Eve, and lighted with the embers of its predecessor to sanctify the roof-tree and protect it against those evil spirits over whom the season is in everyway a triumph."

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