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man⋅tel⋅shelf

  [man-tl-shelf]
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–noun, plural -shelves.
mantel (def. 2).
Origin:
1820–30; mantel + shelf
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man⋅tel

  [man-tl]
–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  [man-tl-pees] , mantlepiece.

Origin:
1480–90; earlier mantell mantelet; var. of mantle
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man·tel also man·tle   (mān'tl)   
n.  

  1. An ornamental facing around a fireplace. Also called regionally mantelpiece.

  2. 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.]
man·tel·shelf   (mān'tl-shělf')   
n.   pl. man·tel·shelves Chiefly Southern U.S.
See mantel.
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Word Origin & History

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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