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andiron

[and-ahy-ern] / ˈændˌaɪ ərn /
NOUN
metal fireplace support
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On display in Manhattan's Robinson Galleries last week went a Wheelock retrospective show that started with the dachshund andiron, ended in 1940 with a crisp, stylized figure of Washington at Valley Forge.

From Time Magazine Archive

She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron.

From Time Magazine Archive

The officials, seeing the marvellous work that he had put into it, sent the money to his shop; and he sent them the other andiron.

From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo by De Vere, Gaston du C.

One early 17th-century andiron recovered is attractively decorated with a cherub’s head in relief.

From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by Cotter, John L.

Joey stared at the andiron with its tell-tale stain.

From The Prophetic Camera by McGreevey, John



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