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mantelpiece

noun as in mantel

Strong match

noun as in shelf

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"I don't want it to be a doorstop or in the bottom drawer, I want it to be on the mantelpiece."

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The dead duck on the mantelpiece let out a single protesting quack, but the portrait of Edward Ashton remained unchanged.

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Others decorate mantelpieces, bookshelves and walls with their plastic builds, often to spouses’ chagrin.

She's a Hollywood A-lister, with a mantelpiece groaning under the weight of awards.

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Luckily for him, his mantelpiece is looking pretty full after his 2021 release, It Takes Two, snagged a clutch of the games industry's biggest awards.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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