fireplace

CEFRB1

/ˈfaɪəpleɪs/

noun

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01
noun
A place in a room where a fire can burn.
02
noun
Extra detail
An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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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.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
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.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 45

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