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Chimney-breast   Listen
noun
Chimney-breast  n.  (Arch.) The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.





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"Chimney-breast" Quotes from Famous Books



... nook spanned the width of one end of the room. It was an open ingle with seats in the wall at each end, and the fire on the ground between them. A goat's head and the horns of an ox were the only ornaments of the chimney-breast, ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine


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