mantelpiece
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The density of the ornament is matched only by its cheapness, with chalices lined up on the mantelpiece like the decorator raided the trophy case of a middle-school gymnasium.
From Slate • Aug. 5, 2025
This product is about 4 inches long, with a string for hanging from your rearview mirror or mantelpiece.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023
A fallen tree’s “live edge” can make a nice mantelpiece or floating shelf, Elfline suggests.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023
Jean Cocteau, arriving to pay tribute to the late author, spotted the manuscript resting on the mantelpiece — a pile of papers “still alive, like watches ticking on the wrists of dead soldiers.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022
I tuck the blanket in tight around her, wiggle my feet into my icy shoes—I already have my coat on—and reach up to the high shelf of the mantelpiece to find the linen key.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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