mantel-piece
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "On the mantel-piece two alabaster figures supported each a little lamp, whose flame was tinted by the stained flowers; […]"
- "It was Friday—the next day was Saturday—the third—he read it on the japanned card-rack, which was nailed near his mantel-piece—was Sunday—he knew not how he should face his parishioners."
- "[…] while the suites of small rooms which had come into favor under the Regent led to a reduction in the size of mantel-pieces, and to the use of less massive and perhaps less architectural ornament. In the eighteenth century, mantel-pieces in Italy and France were almost always composed of a marble or stone architrave surmounted by a shelf of the same material, while the over- mantel consisted of a mirror, framed in mouldings varying in design from the simplest style to the most ornate."