fireplace

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UK /ˈfaɪəpleɪs/ US /ˈfaɪɹpleɪs/

noun 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

big, enormous, great, huge | empty | open | brick, cast-iron, marble, stone, etc.

VERB + FIREPLACE

have

The old cottage had a beautiful fireplace made of stone and brick.

build, install

PREP

in a/the ~

We sat warming our hands in the fireplace while snow fell outside.

Definitions

noun

An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.

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.

Opposite the old church is a Tudor black-and-white cottage, flanked at one end by the Brocket Arms, a splendid 400-year-old pub with stone-flagged floors, a vast inglenook fireplace and a garden full of oak tables and benches for summer evening meditation.

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Synonyms

noun — an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fi

hearth

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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

Wiktionary

Opposite the old church is a Tudor black-and-white cottage, flanked at one end by the Brocket Arms, a splendid 400-year-old pub with stone-flagged floors, a vast inglenook fireplace and a garden full

Wiktionary

A chimney carries smoke from a fireplace to the outside.

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This is a very nice fireplace.

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The fireplace was burning brightly.

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The fireplace lends coziness to this room.

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