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English
Noun
fire-place (plural fire-places)
- Archaic form of fireplace.
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Pride and Prejudice: , volume I, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 120:The first half hour was spent in piling up the fire, lest she should suffer from the change of room; and she removed at his desire to the other side of the fire-place, that she might be farther from the door.
1815, Robertson Buchanan, A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam, Appendix, p. 307.:It has frequently been a subject of inquiry, whether the ancients were acquainted with chimneys, or open fire-places.
1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter II, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 35:How bright were the fire-irons; how clean the Dutch riles round the old-fashioned fire-place, how well-behaved even the cat.
1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, , →OCLC, page 23:The fire-place was an old one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago, and paved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures.
1855, Frederick Douglass, “The Author Removed from His First Home”, in My Bondage and My Freedom. , New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan , →OCLC, part I (Life as a Slave), page 44:The old cabin, with its rail floor and rail bedsteads up stairs, and its clay floor down stairs, and its dirt chimney, and windowless sides, and that most curious piece of workmanship of all the rest, the ladder stairway, and the hole curiously dug in front of the fire-place, beneath which grandmammy placed the sweet potatoes to keep them from the frost, was my home—the only home I ever had; and I loved it, and all connected with it.