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Mantelshelf

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Synonym of mantel (“type of maneuver to surmount a ledge”).

Etymology

From mantel + shelf.

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