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–noun

1.	a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.

2.	Also called mantelshelf. a shelf above a fireplace opening.

Also, mantle.

Also called man·tel·piece

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[Origin: 1480–90; earlier mantell mantelet; var. of mantle

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man·tel also man·tle Audio Help (mān'tl) Pronunciation Key
n.

An ornamental facing around a fireplace. Also called regionally mantelpiece.
The protruding shelf over a fireplace. Also called mantelpiece, mantelshelf; also called regionally fireboard.

[Middle English mantel, as in mantiltre, beam over fireplace opening (perhaps from its use for drying wet clothing); see manteltree.]

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mantel

1489, "short, loose, sleeveless cloak," variant of mantle (q.v.). Sense of "movable shelter for soldiers besieging a fort" is from 1524. Meaning "timber or stone supporting masonry above a fireplace" first recorded 1519, a shortened form of M.E. mantiltre "mantletree" (1482). Mantelpiece is from 1686.

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mantel
noun
shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece"

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Mantel

Man"tel\, n. [The same word as mantle a garment; cf. F. manteau de chemin['e]e. See Mantle.] (Arch.) The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports. [Written also mantle.]

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